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Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola ( / ˈzoʊlə /, [1] [2] also US: / zoʊˈlɑː /, [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] .
Jul 4, 2024 · Émile Zola was a French novelist, critic, and political activist who was the most prominent French novelist of the late 19th century. He was noted for his theories of naturalism, which underlie his monumental 20-novel series Les Rougon-Macquart, and for his intervention in the Dreyfus Affair.
Jan 8, 2018 · The novels of the French writer Émile Zola (1840–1902) move toward a more extreme form of realism known as naturalism, taking its name from its allegedly scientific impulse to base its characters, events, and explanations on natural rather than supernatural or divine causes.
Émile Zola est un écrivain et journaliste français, né le 2 avril 1840 à Paris et mort le 29 septembre 1902 dans la même ville. Considéré comme le chef de file du naturalisme, c'est l'un des romanciers français les plus populaires 3, les plus publiés, traduits et commentés dans le monde entier.
Émile Zola, (born April 2, 1840, Paris, France—died Sept. 28, 1902, Paris), French novelist and critic. Raised in straitened circumstances, Zola worked at a Paris publishing house for several years during the 1860s while establishing himself as a writer.
Émile François Zola was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. More than half of Zola's novels were part of a set of 20 books collectively known as Les Rougon-Macquart.
Émile Zola is known principally as a novelist and as the formulator of the literary movement known as naturalism, which proposed to examine the human species by observing scientifically,...
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Jul 4, 2024 · Émile Zola - French Novelist, Naturalism, Les Rougon-Macquart: Although he produced some 60 volumes of fiction, theory, and criticism, in addition to numerous pieces of journalism, during his 40-year career, Zola is best known for his 20-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, which is “the natural and social history of a family under the Second ...
Emile Zola. 1840-1902. Novelist. Sources. Early Years. Born in Paris, Emile Zola was the only child of Francesco and Emilie Aubert Zola. His twentyone-year-old mother was from a working-class family, while his father (twenty-three years his wife’s senior) was a Venetian civil engineer who had immigrated to France.
