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Émile Zola has 2774 books on Goodreads with 497012 ratings. Émile Zola’s most popular book is Germinal.
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, (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 Zola. Émile Zola was born in Paris, France on 2nd April 1840, the son of François Zola, an engineer and his wife Emilie Aubert. He grew up in Aix-en-Provence, attending the (now named) Collège Mignet, then the Lycée Saint Louis in Paris. Under the harsh straits of poverty after his father died Zola worked various clerical jobs.
Jan 21, 2009 · Tue 20 Jan 2009 19.01 EST. Germinal (1885) La Bête Humaine (1890) Émile Zola's reputation as a novelist of the French left rests both on his campaign for justice over the Dreyfus affair and...
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 Empire .”
Jan 8, 2018 · By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on January 8, 2018 • ( 2 ) 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.
