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ZOLA, Emile

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ISBN 10: 2211075487 ISBN 13: 9782211075480

Publisher: EDL, 2006

Dans la plaine rase, sous la nuit sans �toiles, d'une obscurit� et d'une �paisseur d'encre, un homme suivait seul la grande route de Marchiennes � Montsou, dix kilom�tres de pav� coupant tout droit, � travers les champs de betteraves. Devant lui, il ne voyait m�me pas le sol noir, et il n'avait la sensation de l'immense horizon plat que par les souffles du vent de mars, des rafales larges comme sur une mer, glac�es d'avoir balay� des lieues de marais et de terres nues. Aucune ombre d'arbre ne tachait le ciel, le pav� se d�roulait avec la rectitude d'une jet�e, au milieu de l'embrun aveuglant des t�n�bres.

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About the Author:

?mile Zola was a French writer who is recognized as an exemplar of literary naturalism and for his contributions to the development of theatrical naturalism. Zola s best-known literary works include the twenty-volume Les Rougon-Macquart, an epic work that examined the influences of violence, alcohol and prostitution on French society through the experiences of two families, the Rougons and the Macquarts. Other remarkable works by Zola include Contes ? Ninon, Les Myst?res de Marseille, and Th?r?se Raquin.

In addition to his literary contributions, Zola played a key role in the Dreyfus Affair of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. His newspaper article J Accuse accused the highest levels of the French military and government of obstruction of justice and anti-semitism, for which he was convicted of libel in 1898. After a brief period of exile in England, Zola returned to France where he died in 1902. ?mile Zola is buried in the Panth?on alongside other esteemed literary figures Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas.

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