Emile Zola was born on April 2, 1840 in
Paris, France. He was an influential French novelist.
Biography and Career :
His father was an Italian engineer who moved in Paris and his mother came from a poor French family. At the age of seven Zola lost his father.
He attended classes of a primary and gymnasium school in Aix-en-Provense and finished high-school in Paris, but never got a high-school degree.
Emile Zola earned his living as a functionary in the docks in Paris and then to the Hachette publishing house.
In 1864 he debuted with the volume "Contes a Ninon".
Emile Zola debuted as a journalist in 1865 and defended impressionist painters, especially Manet.
Zola became famous in 1867 after a scand
al caused by the publishing of the novel "Therese Raquin".
On the 13th of May 1870 Zola celebrated Balzac in a large article published in Le Rappel newspaper.
He left Paris in 1871 and went to Marseille where he founded La Mareillaise nwespaper.
On the 14th of October 1871 he published the first volume of the cycle "Les Rougon-Macquart, La Fortune des Rougon" .
Between 1871-1893 Zola wrote a large cycle of 20 novels, under the same title "Les Rougon-Macquart".
In 1877 the painter Edouart Manet exposed a paint named "Nana" inspired by Zola's novel with the same name.
In March 1880 when the novel "Nana" was published Zola had an enormous success and sold 55.000 copies in the first day.
Zola published the novel "Le Reve" in October 1888 and ended the cycle of the family Rougon-Macquart.
In 1890 he candidate at the French Academy and lost.
One year later in 1891 appeared in bookshops the original edition of the novel "L'Argent".
Zola published the first novel "Lourdes" of the cycle "Les Trois Villes" in August 1894.
On the 26th of May 1896 appeared the second novel "Rome" and on the 26th of March 1898 the third "Paris".
In February 1898 Zola was convicted to jail to one year of jail and in July he exiled himself in England.
He returned to France in 1900 and on the 29th of September 1902 Emile Zola died in Paris.
Important Works :
1865 "La Confession de Claude"
1867 "Theri¨se Raquin"
1868 "Madeleine Ferat"
1880 "Le Roman Experimental"
"Les Rougon-Macquart"
1871 "La Fortune des Rougon"
1871-1872 "La Curee"
1873 "Le Ventre de Paris"
1874 "La Conquiªte de Plassans"
1875 "La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret"
1876 "Son Excellence Eugi¨ne Rougon"
1877 "L'Assommoir"
1878 "Une Page d'amour"
1880 "Nana"
1882 "Pot-Bouille"
1883 "Au Bonheur des Dames"
1884 "La Joie de vivre"
1885 "Germinal"
1886 "L'Ã…'uvre"
1887 "La Terre"
1888 "Le Riªve"
1890 "La Biªte humaine"
1891 "L'Argent"
1892 "La Debi¢cle"
1893 "Le Docteur Pascal"
"Les Trois Villes"
1894 "Lourdes"
1896 "Rome"
1898 "Paris"
"Les Quatre Evangiles"
1899 "Fecondite"
1901 "Travail"
1903 "Verite" (published posthumously)
Justice (unfinished)
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