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Zola : a life

"Among the very few writers whose historical importance matches their literary reputation, Emile Zola is perhaps the most eminent. Best-selling novelist, close companion of Cezanne and Manet, critic of politicians, clerics, bankers, and businessmen, he acted with a courage that earned him enduring fame when he took on the most venerable of institutions: the military. But the Dreyfus Affair, although dramatic, was only the most famous event in Zola's tumultuous life. In this sweeping biography, Frederick Brown details Zola's development as an author and locates the social consciousness that led Zola to invest himself in one moral crusade after another. Brown also reveals the contradictory personality - the superstitions and fears of failure, the desire for success, the profound sympathy for all victims of injustice - that provided the foundation for Zola's life's work, the socially engaged and psychologically complex cycle of twenty novels, the Rougon-Macquart."--Jacket.

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  • "Plus d'un demi-siècle d'histoire politique, sociale, religieuse et artistique française revit dans cette biographie qui s'appuit sur de nombreux documents inédits et sur la correspondance de l'auteur de J'accuse et de."
  • "Few writers have been - simultaneously - political hero, intellectual master, and literary giant. But Emile Zola (1840-1902) was: his monumental cycle of twenty novels extended the reach of fiction for all subsequent generations; he gave new meaning to the cause of brave progressivism; and his work sparked into life what we think of as the modern intelligentsia. Zola draws on the new edition of Zola's letters, with its hundreds of new documents, to offer unprecedented detail and nuance about Zola's life."
  • "Few writers have been -- simultaneously -- political hero, intellectual master, and literary giant. But Emile Zola (1840-1902) was. His monumental cycle of twenty novels extended the reach of fiction for all subsequent generations; he gave new meaning to the cause of brave progressivism; and his work sparked into life what we think of as the modern intelligentsia. This magisterial biography of a great but strangely private and unknown man is also a superb history of the social, political, and intellectual world through which Zola traveled so unforgettably. - Jacket flap."
  • ""Among the very few writers whose historical importance matches their literary reputation, Emile Zola is perhaps the most eminent. Best-selling novelist, close companion of Cezanne and Manet, critic of politicians, clerics, bankers, and businessmen, he acted with a courage that earned him enduring fame when he took on the most venerable of institutions: the military. But the Dreyfus Affair, although dramatic, was only the most famous event in Zola's tumultuous life. In this sweeping biography, Frederick Brown details Zola's development as an author and locates the social consciousness that led Zola to invest himself in one moral crusade after another. Brown also reveals the contradictory personality - the superstitions and fears of failure, the desire for success, the profound sympathy for all victims of injustice - that provided the foundation for Zola's life's work, the socially engaged and psychologically complex cycle of twenty novels, the Rougon-Macquart."--Jacket."@en

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