Émile Zola (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Émile Zola is remembered today chiefly as a prolific novelist and as the outspoken defender of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who had been falsely sentenced for disclosing French military secrets to German authorities. This defense reached its apex in an open letter to the President of the French Republic. (Georges Clemenceau, editor of L’Aurore, the journal in which the letter appeared, entitled it “J’accuse.”) Although the letter precipitated Zola’s trial for libel and his exile to England, it helped bring about Dreyfus’s pardon in 1899 and...

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