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It was important to Zola that no character should appear larger than life ; but the criticism that Zola ’ s characters are cardboard, is a substantially more damaging one which in view of the characterization of Gervaise Macquart ( L ' Assommoir ), Nana Coupeau ( Nana ), Jacques Lantier ( La Bête humaine ), Serge Mouret ( La Faute de l ' Abbé Mouret ), Jean Macquart ( La Terre ) and Pascal Rougon ( Le Docteur Pascal ), may seriously be doubted.
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He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.
Col. Henri Garvier was one of New Orleans' most important and enlightened slave owners.
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.
The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.
He commented -- thoughtfully, a reporter told us -- that it was `` not too important for the individual how he ends up ''.
It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.
A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.
However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.
What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.
Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.
What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.
Perhaps his most important private activity was the combination of reading, discussion with a few -- if we can trust his writings to Diodati and the younger Gill, very few -- congenial companions.
most important to Patchen, he was a non-literary hero, and very contemporary.
I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.
When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.
But he knew how important it was for her to keep her figure.
All this was unknown to me, and yet I had dared to ask her out for the most important night of the year!!
Also important on the Brown & Sharpe scene, at the turn of the century, was Mr. Richmond Viall, Works Superintendent of the company from 1876 to 1910.
In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.
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Émile Zola was a prominent French author of the 19th century.
This was noted at the time by art critic and author Émile Zola, who offered his opinion:
The writer Emile Zola published an impassioned editorial on the injustice, and was himself condemned by the government for libel.
The character was closely modeled after Offenbach's female star Hortense Schneider, and Offenbach's librettist Ludovic Halévy gave Émile Zola the details.
Critic Richard Lehan says that " Balzac was the bridge between the comic realism of Dickens and the naturalism of Zola.
In 2000, The Life of Emile Zola was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".
Émile François Zola (; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902 ) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.
Zola was born in Paris in 1840.
His father, François Zola ( originally Francesco Zolla ), was an Italian engineer.
From 1877 with the publication of l ' Assommoir, Émile Zola became wealthy ; he was better paid than Victor Hugo, for example.
Émile Zola risked his career and more on 13 January 1898, when his " J ' accuse ", was published on the front page of the Paris daily L ' Aurore.
As Zola was a leading French thinker, his letter formed a major turning-point in the affair.
Zola was brought to trial for criminal libel on 7 February 1898 and was convicted on 23 February and removed from the Legion of Honor.
Captain Dreyfus initially had promised not to attend the funeral but was given permission by Mme Zola and attended.
Zola was initially buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris but on 4 June 1908, almost six years after his death, his remains were moved to the Panthéon, where he shares a crypt with Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas.
Like Balzac, Zola ’ s imagination was roused by Paris and all that the capital represented to him.
Essential to Zola ’ s concept of the experimental novel was dispassionate observation of the world, with all that it involved by way of meticulous documentation.
Although Zola would not accept that it was either scientifically or artistically justifiable to create larger-than-life characters, his work does present a number of larger-than-life symbols which, like the mine Le Voreux in Germinal, take on the nature of a surrogate human life.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture but lost to The Life of Emile Zola, and H. B.
The Paris of Zola, Manet, France, Degas, Fauré, a group that had assembled more on the basis of status affinity than actual artistic tastes, indulging in the refinements of Dandyism, was at the opposite end of the economic, social, and political spectrum from the gritty, tough-talking, die-hard, emigrant artists that peopled Montparnasse.
The story of a young prostitute, it was closer to Naturalism and brought him to the attention of Emile Zola.
His career was further overclouded by the long-drawn-out Dreyfus case, in which he took an active part as a supporter of Emile Zola and an opponent of the anti-Semitic and Nationalist campaigns.
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