Émile Zola



Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. In literature, he is best known for Les Rougon-Macquart, a cycle of twenty novels that follows the lives of the members of the two titular branches of a fictional family living during the Second French Empire (1852–1870).

He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse…!

Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.


 * J'accuse!


 * La Confession de Claude (1865)
 * Les Mystères de Marseille (1867)
 * Thérèse Raquin (1867)
 * Madeleine Férat (1868)
 * Nouveaux Contes à Ninon (1874)
 * Le Roman Experimental (1880)
 * Jacques Damour et autres nouvelles (1880)
 * "L'Attaque du moulin" (1877), short story included in Les Soirées de Médan
 * L'Inondation (1880 novella)
 * Les Rougon-Macquart
 * La Fortune des Rougon (1871)
 * La Curée (1871–72)
 * Le Ventre de Paris (1873)
 * La Conquête de Plassans (1874)
 * La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (1875)
 * Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (1876)
 * L'Assommoir (1877)
 * Une page d'amour (1878)
 * Nana (1880)
 * Pot-Bouille (1882)
 * Au Bonheur des Dames (1883)
 * La joie de vivre (1884)
 * Germinal (1885)
 * L'Œuvre (1886)
 * La Terre (1887)
 * Le Rêve (1888)
 * La Bête humaine (1890)
 * L'Argent (1891)
 * La Débâcle (1892)
 * Le Docteur Pascal (1893)
 * Les Trois Villes
 * Lourdes (1894)
 * Rome (1896)
 * Paris (1898)
 * Les Quatre Évangiles
 * Fécondité (1899)
 * Travail (1901)
 * Vérité (1903, published posthumously)
 * Justice (unfinished)