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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]
Thou Shalt Not is a musical based on Émile Zola's 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin with music and lyrics by Harry Connick Jr. and an adapted book by David Thompson.The musical deals with the consequences involved in the breaking of several Commandments, in particular the sixth and seventh.
Renaud dedicated part of his work to his familial roots, singing traditional songs in the regional Picard language and playing the part of Étienne Lantier in Germinal, a film based on the famous Émile Zola novel. He is the sixth of eight children born to his father.
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 ...
Lazare is a 1902 French-language drame lyrique /oratorio [1] by Alfred Bruneau to an 1896 poem by Émile Zola. [2] Recording. Louis-Jacques Rondeleux as Lazarus, ...
Germinal is a 1993 French-Belgian epic film based on the 1885 novel by Émile Zola.It was directed by Claude Berri, and stars Renaud, Miou-Miou and Gérard Depardieu.At the time it was the most expensive movie ever produced in France. [3]
L'Assommoir, published as a serial in 1876, and in book form in 1877, is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel — a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris — was a huge commercial success and helped establish Zola's fame and reputation throughout France and the world.
Thérèse Raquin (French pronunciation: [teʁɛz ʁakɛ̃]) is an 1868 novel by French writer Émile Zola, first published in serial form in the literary magazine L'Artiste in 1867. It was Zola's third novel, though the first to earn wide fame.