Émile Zola

Lo que yo le pido al artista no es que me dé tiernas visiones o pesadillas espantosas, sino que se me ofrezca él mismo en carne y hueso, que proclame bien alto una mente poderosa y singular, y un natural que sepa atrapar con su mano a la naturaleza y nos la plante delante tal como la ve. En una palabra, siento el más profundo desdén por las pequeñas habilidades, la zalamería interesada, todo cuanto hayan podido enseñar el estudio y hacer del...

Zola's twenty novel cycle "Les Rougon-Macquart" is epic in scope, often drawing comparisons to the prolific output of Balzac. Here, in his 1888 "Le Rêve" ("The Dream") we encounter the sixteenth installment of the cycle. This tale tells the story of the young orphan Angélique Marie. Enchanted by stories of heraldry and sainthood, she dreams of being swept away by a brave prince. Her fairy-tale wish works its way into her life when she falls in love...

Madeleine Férat (1868) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Following the success of his third novel, Thérèse Raquin (1867), Zola published Madeleine Férat to lukewarm critical acclaim. Intent on exploring taboo and the lives of people on the edge of society, Zola crafts a narrative capable of illuminating the human condition, while humanizing those typically disdained by the literary elite. In 1920, Madeleine Férat was adapted into an Italian...

'The Masterpiece’ is a work of a French writer and publicist E. Zola (1840 - 1902). It describes the small bourgeoisie family in the Second Empire period. It's based on real life events of the author's life and his friends of youth, P. Cezanne, E. Manet, B. Bile, C. Monet, and others. The author supports impressionists. The novel problematizes attitude towards reality. After the book had, appeared the controversies began. In this book, an advanced...

Gervaise Macquart, que había llegado a París cargada de proyectos e ilusiones, se encuentra sola y con hijos que alimentar en uno de los barrios más pobres de la ciudad. Cuanto más intenta tirar adelante de forma honrada, lavando sin descanso ropa sucia para salir de ese lodazal de miseria, degradación y vicio, más se hunde en él y más cerca está de ser engullida por el tugurio donde hombres y mujeres se abandonan en los brazos del alcohol...

"L'Œuvre" d'Émile Zola est un roman captivant publié au XIXe siècle. L'histoire suit la vie de Claude Lantier, un artiste ambitieux et talentueux qui cherche à révolutionner l'art avec ses peintures innovantes. Cependant, sa passion et son ambition le conduisent également à l'autodestruction. Le livre décrit les luttes de Claude pour trouver sa place dans le monde de l'art, en explorant les idées et les innovations artistiques de l'époque....

Widely acknowledged as one of Emile Zola's masterpieces, "L'Assommoir" is a novel immersed in the harsh poverty and relief-giving alcoholism of working-class Paris in the nineteenth century. At the heart of Zola's shockingly realistic descriptions is Gervaise, a mother abandoned by her lover who must learn to survive alone on what she can earn. When she marries the abstemious roof-worker Coupeau and manages to open her own laundry, life is for a while...

The Ladies' Delight (1883) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. The eleventh of twenty volumes of Zola's monumental Les Rougon-Macquart series is an epic story of family, politics, class, and history that traces the disparate paths of several French citizens raised by the same mother. Spanning the entirety of the French Second Empire, Zola provides a sweeping portrait of change that refuses to shy away from controversy and truth as it gets to...

The Experimental Novel (1880) is an essay by French author Émile Zola. Written at the height of his career as a leading proponent of Naturalism, The Experimental Novel serves to illuminate the author's approach to the practice and purpose of writing while advocating for a revolution of style among artists of his era. Read as a reaction against Romanticism, The Experimental Novel proves a convincing counterpoint to the excesses and failures of nineteenth...

Theresa Raquin follows life of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt who may seem to be well-intentioned but in many ways is deeply selfish. Theresa's husband, Camille, is sickly and egocentric, and when the opportunity arises, Theresa enters into a turbulent and sordidly passionate affair with one of Camille's friends, Laurent.