Émile Zola

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Émile Zola is written by Robert Lethbridge and published by Reaktion Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1836390165 (ISBN 10) and 9781836390169 (ISBN 13).

Nuanced and insightful, a comprehensive exploration of the life, work, and times of the celebrated French literary polymath. Émile Zola is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest writers, whose reputation was reinforced by his historic intervention in the Dreyfus Affair. This book explores Zola’s life and work and how these were determined by the traumatic history of his times. From humble beginnings, Zola’s life was marked by the determination to succeed. Robert Lethbridge traces his development as a writer, including Zola’s earliest texts and his novel cycles, and further shows how Zola’s extraordinary creativity extended from his journalism to experiments in the theater and even to his own operatic adaptations of his novels. Lethbridge offers the reader new perspectives, informed by the most recent research, which bring together Zola’s writing and its historical context.