Zola: A Life

by Frederick Brown (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $4.75

  Emile Zola has been attributed with starting the French realist movement. This biography spans his novels and is also a history of social and literary France in the late-19th century, and the political and intellectual world which Zola inhabited. The book analyzes Zola's relationships with Cezanne, Flaubert and Manet, placing his novels in their cultural context. It also considers his impact on the Dreyfus affair with the work, J'accuse .

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $4.56

  Few writers have been, simultaneously, political hero, intellectual master and literary giant. But Emile Zola was: his cycle of 20 novels spanned his and later generations and his work sparked into life what we now think of as the modern intelligentisia. This biography of the strangely private and unknown man is also a history of social and literary France in the late-19th century, and of the political and intellectual world through which Zola travelled. The book covers his relationships with Cezanne, Flaubert and Manet, places the great novels in the cultural context from which they sprang, and considers Zola's impact on the Dreyfus Affair with his J'accuse .