Show EMILE ZOLA L T THE AGE of ot a little more than AT A 60 0 years Emile Zola is dead Zola while not entitled to rank with Dau Daudet det Hugo Balzac and other really great French writers had a fame tame and a II clientele distinctively his own Where Baudot Daudet and Hugo used the rapier Zola used a club He was one of ot the most brutally frank writers of ot his tine time tI e And his work was always clever always entertaining Zola had the genius which claims attention and holds it even een though the reader might disagree radically with him Mm He was a prolific writer too During the years from 1871 1811 to 1893 lie be produced and published twenty novels His first work Contes a Ninon ap appeared appeared neared in 1864 and brought him al almost almost almost most immediate recognition Zola Zoa was also well known for his writings In criticism In ISS the novelist and critic sprang Into greater international prominence through his connection with Ith the fa ta famous incus Dreyfus case His pamphlet in which he lie attacked the which tried and acquitted Major Ester Esterhazy Esterhazy Esterhazy hazy the causer couser of Dreyfus Involved him In legal proceedings for libel He Heas was as found guilty and sentenced to pay paya payi a fine of at francs and serve a year in prison orison He left France before no notice notice tice of the judgment could be served but was later pardoned |