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Author_Robert Lethbridge
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Dreyfus
Dreyfus Affair
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mile Zola
Napoleon
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Rougon-Macquart
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Zola
Product details
- ISBN 9781836390176
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Winner of the Franco-British Society Literary Award 2025.
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 the ways in which 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 Zola's development as a writer, including the earliest texts and his novel-cycles, and further shows how Zola’s extraordinary creativity extended from his journalism to experiments in the theatre and even 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.
Robert Lethbridge is a Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of London. He is currently Hon. Professor at the University of St Andrews. His books include Zola’s Painters (2022). He lives in Fife, Scotland.
