Émile Zola

Work (1901) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Published as the second installment of his Les Quatre Évangiles, a series of four novels inspired by the New Testament gospels and aimed at investigating prominent social issues, Work was the last of Zola's novels to be published during his lifetime. Combining his trademark naturalist style with an interest in Charles Fourier's theory of socialist utopianism, Zola crafts a story of hardship and...

L'Assommoir est un roman d'Émile Zola publié en feuilleton dès 1876 dans Le Bien public, puis dans La République des Lettres, avant sa sortie en livre en 1877 chez l'éditeur Georges Charpentier. C'est le septième volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. L'ouvrage est totalement consacré au monde ouvrier et, selon Zola, c'est « le premier roman sur le peuple, qui ne mente pas et qui ait l'odeur du peuple ». L'écrivain y restitue la langue...

La Conquête de Plassans est un roman d'Émile Zola publié en 1874, le quatrième de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. Un prêtre bonapartiste originaire du diocèse de Besançon, l'abbé Faujas, est envoyé à Plassans par le pouvoir pour la reconquérir. À son arrivée, il est logé chez François Mouret, un commerçant retraité. Celui-ci, son épouse Marthe, leurs trois enfants et leur bonne vivaient seuls jusqu'alors dans la maison. Marthe et...

Claude's Confession (1865) is a novel by French author, Émile Zola. Written at night while Zola was, employed at Hachette, Claude's Confession proved scandalous upon publication and resulted in the loss of his job. Undeterred by the response to his literary debut, Zola took advantage of his newfound infamy in order to embark on a career as one of France's foremost experimental writers. Intent on exploring taboo and the lives of people on the edge...

His Masterpiece, sometimes translated as “The Work” or “The Masterpiece,” is Zola’s 14th entry in his Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we see Claude Lantier, a painter with obvious talent, struggle to leave a revolutionary mark on the art world of 19th-century Paris. The novel deftly explores the themes of genius, poverty, purity in art, art as an beaurocratic institution, obsession, and madness.

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Rome (1896) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Rome is the second installment in Zola's celebrated Three Cities Trilogy. Published toward the end of Zola's career, the trilogy is an ambitious, sweeping study of one man's struggle with faith in political, religious, and social life. Following his protagonist Abbé Pierre Froment, Zola provides a striking portrait of the soul of modern man in crisis with itself and with an ever-changing world....

J'Accuse…! (Io accuso…!) è il titolo dell'editoriale scritto dal giornalista e scrittore francese Émile Zola in forma di lettera aperta al presidente della Repubblica francese Félix Faure, e pubblicato il 13 gennaio 1898 dal giornale socialista L'Aurore con lo scopo di denunciare pubblicamente i persecutori di Alfred Dreyfus, le irregolarità e le illegalità commesse nel corso del processo che lo vide condannato per alto tradimento, al

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"Abbé Mouret's Transgression" (La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret), written in 1874, is perhaps the most powerful and poetic of all Zola's tales; it is that in which fantasy bears the greatest part, and in which "naturalisme" for a while disappears. The opening chapters describe a profligate and almost pagan village in Provence, and here "naturalisme" is at home, and in its proper place. The fifth novel in Zola's "Rougon-Macquart" series, "Abbé Mouret's...

Émile Zola (1840-1902) was one of France's greatest novelists of the nineteenth century, being most famous as a writer for Nana (the story of a courtesan), and in the political world for his role in exposing the frame-up of Captain Dreyfus. However, he had limited success as a dramatist until he partnered with William Busnach, an Algerian Jew. This adaptation of the Zola novel of the same name is a powerful exposé of life among the working poor,...

The third novel in Zola's twenty-volume series entitled Les Rougon-Macquart, this story revolves around and within the 21-acre market Les Halles Centrales of Paris. The starving scholar Florent has escaped his unwarranted exile on Devil's Island, and he is alternately entranced and disgusted by his refuge in The belly of Paris. Zola describes the market and Florent's experiences in the midst of it with his characteristically captivating comprehension,...