I had my first encounter with Emile Zola 20 years ago. Knowing almost nothing about the reputedly gloomy French novelist, I went to see a stage adaptation of Nana, his portrait of a Parisian courtesan ...

Fictionalized account of the life of famed French author Emile Zola. As portrayed in the film, he was a penniless writer sharing an apartment in Paris with painter Paul Cezanne when he finally wrote a ...

In Emile Zola’s “Therese Raquin,” the voracious anti-heroine’s sensual recklessness is explained away by biology. It is a matter of physiological fact, what Zola termed the “fatalities of the flesh” ...

Nana is a five-part British television miniseries based on Émile Zola's 1880 novel of the same name about the rise of Nana Coupeau, a young woman from the Parisian slums who becomes a famous actress ...

Thousands of photographs and equipment belonging to writer’s grandson expected to fetch up to £53,000 at auction Émile Zola is best known as the 19th century French author of celebrated works ...

Piccola storia di un ripensamento: riguarda la parola giusta per rendere l’attacco a effetto di un capitolo dell’«Assommoir», in cui si parla del destino di Nanà, futura cortigiana ...