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Émile Zola

Forfatterbiografi

Émile Zola (født 2. april 1840 i Paris, død 29. september 1902 i Paris) var en fransk forfatter, journalist og litterær kritiker, bedst kendt som en af naturalismens hovedskikkelser. Han udviklede en programmæssig idé om at skildre mennesket og dets omgivelser med næsten videnskabelig præcision, og det blev afgørende for hans store romancyklus Les Rougon-Macquart, som samlede 20 bind og satte et helt socialt univers ind i centrum. Zola skrev blandt andet romanerne L’Assommoir, Germinal, Nana og Le Ventre de Paris samt værker, der knytter hans interesse for byliv og sociale vilkår til en bredere kritik af samtiden. Zolas betydning rækker ud over romanformen. Hans engagement i Dreyfus-sagen gav ham en særlig rolle i samtidens offentlige debat, og hans åbne indlæg blev et symbol på kampen for retfærdighed. Som anerkendelse for hans indsats blev hans rester senere overført til Panthéon i 1908. Sammen med hans litterære projekt var denne offentlige position med til at etablere ham som en af de mest indflydelsesrige skikkelser i fransk litteratur i det 19. århundrede og som en vedvarende reference for realistisk og naturalistisk prosa.

Bøger af Émile Zola

'Thérèse Raquin'
'Thérèse Raquin'

Bog | Engelsk

Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the crime itself goes unsuspected oh yes, there's many a murderer basking in the sun... When Thérèse Raquin is forced to marry

'The Assommoir'
'The Assommoir'

Bog | Engelsk

'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!' In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a pittance washing other people's dirty clothes

'The Fortune of the Rougons'
'The Fortune of the Rougons'

Bog | Engelsk

'He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.' Set in the fictitious Provençal town of Plassans, The Fortune of the Rougons tells the st

'Therese Raquin'
'Therese Raquin'

Bog | Engelsk

Trapped in a loveless, arranged marriage to her spoiled and selfish cousin, Camille, Therese Raquin becomes restless and embarks upon a torrid affair... an affair that will result in murder, guilt, despair and tragedy... Usually considered to be Zola'

'Germinal'
'Germinal'

Bog | Engelsk

Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which

'The Human Beast'
'The Human Beast'

Bog | Engelsk

Some impulses cannot be controlled. Some beasts cannot be caged. Jacques Lantier is a skilled train engineer on the Paris-Le Havre line-competent, respected, seemingly normal. But Jacques harbors a terrible secret: when he desires a woman, he also wants t

'Nana'
'Nana'

Bog | fre

Nana est l'une des oeuvres les plus repr sentatives de l' crivain Emile Zola, auteur fran ais du naturaliste du XIXe si cle et p re du plus grand exposant de ce mouvement. Nana a t publi en 1880. L'histoire commence en 1868 et d peint deux cat

'Nana'
'Nana'

Bog | Dansk

Før han begyndte at skrive Nana, vidste Zola intet om Théâtre des Variétés i Paris. Dramatikeren Ludovic Halévy inviterede ham til at deltage i en operette med ham dér den 15. februar 1878 og tog ham bag scenen. Halévy fortalte ham utallige historier om d

'Nana'
'Nana'

Bog | Engelsk

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'The Fortune of the Rougons'
'The Fortune of the Rougons'

Bog | Engelsk

"The Fortune of the Rougons" by Emile Zola is a captivating novel that delves into the intricacies of French society during the Second Empire. As a cornerstone of French literature, Zola's novel is a sweeping family saga that explores the th

'The Dreyfus Affair'
'The Dreyfus Affair'

Bog | Engelsk

In September 1894 the French authorities intercepted a letter which they claimed emanated from a Jewish army captain, Alfred Dreyfus, which they claimed to be proof of espionage on behalf of Germany. Dreyfus was subsequently court-martialed and imprisoned