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Emile Zola: French Jewish
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Emile Zola began writing literary columns and reviews, after spending time as a clerk. His views were controversial and politically motivated, even before the libel suit that was brought against him for the publication of "J'Accuse," an open letter to the French president.
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Zola intended to conjure up again the emotions which had been felt by the French in their defeat by means of this novel written twenty years after that defeat. He ... wished to pin the blame for the debacle on Napoleon III's kleptocracy and the incompetent, venal generals who rose to power in the Second Empire. In other words, Zola created a sort of novelistic, 19th century "Farenheit 9/11", one which earned him the kind of hostility and accusations of being a carrion bird that Michael Moore is currently garnering at this writing in the summer of 2004.
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As early as 1867, the French novelist Émile Zola had called for a rejection of all artifice in the theatrical arts, as in the novel, demanding that plays be faithful records of behaviour—namely, scientific analyses of life. Thérèse Raquin, an 1873 dramatization of his own novel (written in 1867), represents the first consciously Naturalistic drama.
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French novelist Emilé Zola (1840-1902) was born on this day in Paris. He founded the Naturalism movement in literature which was inspired by the importance of science and Darwin's theory of evolution.
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Inspired by his readings in social history and medicine like Claude Bernard's Introduction to Experimental Medicine (1865), Zola decided to apply scientific techniques and observations to the depiction of French society under the Second Empire. He composed a vast series of novels in which the characters and their social milieus are impartially observed and presented in minute and often sordid detail.
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