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Zola

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Zo·la  (zl, z-lä), Émile 1840-1902.
French writer and critic who was a leading proponent of naturalism in fiction. His works include Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-1893), a series of 20 novels, and "J'Accuse" (1898), a letter in defense of Alfred Dreyfus.
Zola [ˈzəʊlə (French) zɔla]
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(Biographies / Zola, Émile (1840-1902) M, French, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: critic) Émile (emil). 1840-1902, French novelist and critic; chief exponent of naturalism. In Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), a cycle of 20 novels, he explains the behaviour of his characters in terms of their heredity: it includes L'Assommoir (1877), Nana (1880), Germinal (1885), and La Terre (1887). He is also noted for his defence of Dreyfus in his pamphlet J'accuse (1898)
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Noun1.ZolaZola - French novelist and critic; defender of Dreyfus (1840-1902)
Emile Zola


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The great Zola, or call him the immense Zola, was the prime mover in the attack upon the masters of the Romanticistic school; but he lived to own that he had fought a losing fight, and there are some proofs that he was right.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
Now look here, when Olympia was shown at the Salon, Zola--amid the jeers of the Philistines and the hisses of the pompiers, the academicians, and the public, Zola said: `I look forward to the day when Manet's picture will hang in the Louvre opposite the Odalisque of Ingres, and it will not be the Odalisque which will gain by comparison.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Three years ago she had the thrice-blessed idea of opening a sort of pension for the entertainment and instruction of the blundering barbarians who come to Paris in the hope of picking up a few stray particles of the language of Voltaire--or of Zola.
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