Guillaume and Clara are discussing which, of Balzac and Zola, is their favourite French author.
Pay attention to the hints!
Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "mériter le titre de", "ne serait-ce que", "une fresque", "sociétal.e", "prolifique", "auparavant", "un contemporain", "estimer", "la minutie", "retranscrire", "les mœurs", "façonner", "indiscutable", "nul autre que", "prétendre à", "inégalé.e", "mettre en scène", "issu de", "les milieux populaires", "subsister", "la classe ouvrière", "certes", "le naturalisme (literary movement)", "de son propre dire", "surpasser".
