Émile Zola

Émile Zola

Naissance 2 April 1840 · Décès 28 September 1902

Originaire de rue Saint-Joseph, Île-de-France, France · Nationalité : France · Écrit de la fiction et des essais

Citations

“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.”
Letter to Paul Cézanne 16 April 1860 , as published in John Rewald ed. Paul CEn anglais
“One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.”
p. 840En anglais
“Thérèse, residing in damp obscurity, in gloomy, crushing silence, saw life expand before her in all its nakedness, each night bringing the same cold couch, and each morn the same empty day.”
Thérèse Raquin, Chapter 3En anglais
“For Madame Raquin, there was such a fathomless depth in this thought, that she could neither reason it out, nor grasp it clearly. She experienced but one sensation, that of a horrible disaster; it seemed to her that she was falling into a dark, cold hole. And she said to herself: "I shall be smashed to pieces at the bottom."”
Thérèse Raquin, Chapter 26En anglais
“They called her 'the chicken', for she had in truth the soft flesh and country freshness of a chicken.”
L'Assommoir, Chapter 11En anglais

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Les livres de Émile Zola dans l'ordre

Les livres de Émile Zola dans l'ordre de parution, de Therese Raquin (1867) à The Beast Within (2008).

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