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Émile Zola
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Definition:[1840 - 1902]a French writer and founder of "Naturalism" in literature.He is most famous for risking his career by publicly defending a falsely accused Jewish man named Dreyfus when anti-semitism was raging across Europe (and North America). In 1898 he was actually tried and convicted of libel in his defense of Dreyfus and was not exonerated until 1906.
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"[...] But nowadays they swear [Dreyfus] is innocent, and all because of that damn writer, Zola. He's managed to divide our society. Now half of France wants to free him from Devil's Island, where he should stay forever."
Paulo Coelho. The Spy, p.46 (2016)
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He did wish he had been reading anything but the work of M. Zola, which was propped up in front of him, but there was no time to put it away.
F. Anstey. The Black Poodle and Other Tales (1896)
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What you said so perfectly hits off French art now, painting and literature too, indeed— Zola, Daudet.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Bloch had been able, thanks to a Nationalist lawyer of his acquaintance, to secure admission to several hearings of the Zola trial.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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He had also arranged with his bookseller in Paris to receive works by the most widely read authors, among them Anatole France and Pierre Loti, and by those he liked best, including Rémy de Gourmont and Paul Bourget, but under no circumstances anything by Émile Zola, whom he found intolerable despite his valiant intervention in the Dreyfus affair.
Gabriel Garcia Márquez. Love in the Time of Cholera (1988)
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With Zola, the nostalgia of the far-away was different. In him was no longing for vanished ages, no aspiring toward worlds lost in the night of time.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours (1922)
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