Émile Zola
Émile Zola (IPA: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a major French writer and the most important naturalist writer. He worked toward political liberalization of France.
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Born | Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola 2 April 1840 Paris, France |
Died | 29 September 1902 Paris, France | (aged 62)
Occupation | Novelist, playwright, journalist |
Nationality | French |
Genre | Naturalism |
Notable works | Les Rougon-Macquart, Thérèse Raquin, Germinal |
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Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.[1][2] His death from carbon monoxide poisoning is suspected to have been suicide.
Works by Emile Zola
- Contes á Ninon, (1864)
- La Confession de Claude (1865)
- Thérèse Raquin (1867)
- Madeleine Férat (1868)
- Le Roman Experimental (1880)
- Les Rougon-Macquart
- La Fortune des Rougon (1871)
- La Curée (1871–72)
- Le Ventre de Paris (1873)
- La Conquête de Plassans (1874)
- La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (1875)
- Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (1876)
- L'Assommoir (1877)
- Une Page d'amour (1878)
- Nana (1880)
- Pot-Bouille (1882)
- Au Bonheur des Dames (1883)
- La Joie de vivre (1884)
- Germinal (1885)
- L'Œuvre (1886)
- La Terre (1887)
- Le Rêve (1888)
- La Bête humaine (1890)
- L'Argent (1891)
- La Débâcle (1892)
- Le Docteur Pascal (1893)
- Les Trois Villes
- Lourdes (1894)
- Rome (1896)
- Paris (1898)
- Les Quatre Evangiles
- Fécondité (1899)
- Travail (1901)
- Vérité (1903, published posthumously)
- Justice (unfinished)
Émile Zola Media
Paul Cézanne, Paul Alexis Reading to Émile Zola, 1869–1870, São Paulo Museum of Art
Captioned "French Realism", caricature of Zola in the London magazine Vanity Fair, 1880
Front page cover of the newspaper L'Aurore for Thursday 13 January 1898, with the open letter J'Accuse…!, written by Émile Zola about the Dreyfus affair. The headline reads "I Accuse...! Letter to the President of the Republic"—Paris Museum of Jewish Art and History
Portrait of Zola by Nadar, 3 March 1898
Gravestone of Émile Zola at cimetière Montmartre; his remains are now interred in the Panthéon.
Graves of Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo and Émile Zola at the Panthéon in Paris
References
- ↑ "Nomination Database - Literature - 1901". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
- ↑ "Nomination Database - Literature - 1902". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
Other websites
- Émile Zola, his work in audio version Archived 2010-12-31 at the Wayback Machine (in French)