Zola, Émile
Entry updated 1 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1840-1902) French author whose long and intense Rougon-Macquart sequence of Naturalist novels (1871-1893) includes tales like Nana (1880; trans E A Vizetelly 1884), for which he was once notorious. Zola is of sf interest for Vérité (1903 2vols; trans E A Vizetelly as Truth 1903), the third instalment of his unfinished Les Quatre Évangiles ["The Four Evangelists"] quartet, which was planned to espouse a kind of Tolstoyan socialism. The action in Truth extends through the Near Future to 1980, and there are hints of advanced Technologies. [JC]
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola
born Paris: 2 April 1840
died Paris: 29 September 1902
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series
Les Quatre Évangiles (incomplete at Zola's death)
- Vérité (Paris: Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1903) [published in two volumes: hb/]
- Truth (London: Chatto and Windus, 1903) [trans by E A Vizetelly of the above: Les Quatre Évangiles: hb/]
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