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Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (/ ˈ z oʊ l ə /, [1] [2] also US: / z oʊ ˈ l ɑː /; [3] [4] French: [emil zɔla]; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) [5] was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. [6]
1937 (in English) The Life of Émile Zola, American Film by William Dieterle – Black and White – 90 min 1958 (in English) I Accuse! , American film by José Ferrer – Black and White – 90 min 1960 (in Greek) I am innocent , Greek film by Dinos Katsouridis – Black and White – 90 min
Pages in category "Novels by Émile Zola" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. L'Argent;
On 20 January 1898, after an anti-Zola speech by rightist politician Albert de Mun at the Chamber of Deputies, the chamber voted 312–22 to prosecute Zola. [140] On 23 January 1898 Clemenceau , in the name of a "peaceful revolt of the French spirit", picked up the term "intellectuals" and used it in L'Aurore , but in a positive sense.
Les Rougon-Macquart (French pronunciation: [le ʁuɡɔ̃ makaʁ]) is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola.Subtitled Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire (Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire), it follows the lives of the members of the two titular branches of a fictional family living during ...
Edition of the Polish Życie reporting on Zola's letter and the Dreyfus affair. Alfred Dreyfus was a French army officer from a prosperous Jewish family. [4] In 1894, while an artillery captain for the General Staff of France, Dreyfus was suspected of providing secret military information to the German government.
Zola sets out his vision of heredity which will be developed later in Les Rougon-Macquart.. He introduces as a tragic spring the theory, already contested in his time, of impregnation , put forward by Michelet in Love and Woman and by Doctor Prosper Lucas in the Treatise on Natural Heredity (1847-1850): a woman would keep the indelible imprint of the man who took her virginity: Jacques ...
It was Zola's third novel, though the first to earn wide fame. The novel's adultery and murder were considered scandalous and famously described as "putrid" in a review in the newspaper Le Figaro . Thérèse Raquin tells the story of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt, who may seem to be well-intentioned ...