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One of the last works of this author was a treatise called J'accuse ou ______ côté ombre, in which he chastised the local government of a large city near which he was living at the time for its complicity with organized crime. Ostracized for the treatise's publication, the author was eventually proven right posthumously when the city's (former) mayor was found guilty of corruption three years after the author's 1991 death.
a. Émile Zola
b. Victor Hugo
c. Graham Greene
d. Samuel Beckett
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Émile Zola

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born

April 02, 1840

died

September 29, 1902

gender

male

place of birth

France

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Émile Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France.

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avg rating: 3.93 | 5,738 ratings | 529 reviews | 271 distinct works | 43 fans

	Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13) (Penguin Classics) by Émile Zola, Roger Pearson (Translator) avg rating 4.02 — 1,105 ratings — published 1885 74 editions	my rating:
	Therese Raquin by Émile Zola avg rating 3.73 — 643 ratings — published 1867 83 editions	my rating:
	Nana (Les Rougon-Macquart, #9) by Émile Zola avg rating 3.75 — 603 ratings — published 1880 69 editions	my rating:
	L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Les Rougon-Macquart, #7) (Penguin Classics) by Émile Zola avg rating 4.12 — 321 ratings — published 1876 72 editions	my rating:
	The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart, #11) (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola, Brian Nelson (Translator) avg rating 4.06 — 262 ratings — published 1967 36 editions	my rating:
	La Bête Humaine (Les Rougon-Macquart, #17) by Émile Zola avg rating 4.09 — 234 ratings — published 1901 35 editions	my rating:
	The Masterpiece (Les Rougon-Macquart, #14) (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola, Roger Pearson avg rating 3.77 — 166 ratings — published 1895 26 editions	my rating:
	The Earth (Les Rougon-Macquart, #15) (Penguin Classics) by Émile Zola avg rating 3.84 — 98 ratings — published 1960 16 editions	my rating:
	The Belly of Paris (Les Rougon-Macquart, #3) (Green Integer) by Émile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (Translator) avg rating 4.01 — 90 ratings — published 1971 29 editions	my rating:
	La Curée (Les Rougon-Macquart, #2) by Émile Zola avg rating 3.94 — 65 ratings — published 1982 24 editions	my rating:

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quotes by Émile Zola

"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud."
— Émile Zola

tags: art, calling, life

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"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
— Émile Zola

tags: work

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"Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest."
— Émile Zola

tags: atheism, civilization, religion

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