The Disappearance of Émile Zola Love Literature and the Dreyfus Case eBook Michael Rosen
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It is the evening of 18 July 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Émile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking on the highest powers in the land with his open letter 'J'accuse' and losing. Forced to leave Paris, with nothing but the clothes he is standing in and a nightshirt wrapped in newspaper, Zola flees to England with no idea when he will return.
This is the little-known story of his time in exile. Rosen has traced Zola's footsteps from the Gare du Nord to London, examining the significance of this year. The Disappearance of Zola offers an intriguing insight into the mind, the loves, the politics and the work of the great writer.
The Disappearance of Émile Zola Love Literature and the Dreyfus Case eBook Michael Rosen
The famous French novelist's involvement with the Dreyfus Affair is explained here, from a different angle.Dr. Rosen describes in clear detail the complexities of Zola's self-imposed short exile to England, where he continued his efforts to obtain justice in France for the wrongly-accused Dreyfus and while he continued his ground-breaking writing career. Meanwhile, all this time, Zola attended to an irregular home life. (In terms of the family, Mrs. Zola, I think, deserves prizes.)
In sum, Zola, a non-Jew, strove for justice and to have Jews treated fairly by the highly conservative French society of the times, with beneficial and long-lasting impacts along the same lines in England.
Dr. Michael Rosen writes well and from knowledge.
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The Disappearance of Émile Zola Love Literature and the Dreyfus Case eBook Michael Rosen Reviews
Emile Zola fled France for England in the Summer of 1898 to avoid incarceration for his libel conviction arising from his “J’Accuse,” article defending Colonel Alfred Dreyfus. Anonymous, Zola stayed eleven (11) months in England (the London area), visiting at times with his French family, his wife and his mistress and his two young children.
Michael Rosen’s “ The Disappearance of Emile Zola,” draws on Zola’s correspondence and those of his friends, to vividly portray the famous writer; anguished in loneliness, unrepentant in his writing, committed to Dreyfus’ innocence, and a loving father, skillfully balancing two women as his “wives,” who yet found time to pen a novel while in England and publish it on his return to France.
Zola, at the time, was one of France’s most influential writers, penning “realist” novels (Rosen describes them as “naturalist,” pornographic to some), a catalyst for change in the “depiction of love, sex and class in literature”, the most notable non Jew (“outsider”) defending the Jew, Dreyfus, and meeting with the Socialists Jean Jaures and Max Beer in England.
The well written book could be shorter as Rosen dwells in the beginning on the minutiae of Zola’s family correspondence and ends with a personalized, first person story distracting the reader from the end. He adds the complete “J’Accuse” which is informative and interesting.
Zola and the Dreyfus Affair
My thanks to my contacts at Pegasus Books, Iris Blasi, Katie McGuire, and Maia Larson, for my advance reading copy of this book. You ladies rock!
In 1894 French Intelligence was made aware of an unnamed French Officer who was sending state secrets to German Intelligence. The investigation into the case was prejudiced from the start. Captain Alfred Dreyfus was accused, court-martialed, convicted, and sent to Devil’s Island in French Guiana on flimsy evidence. The deciding factor in the alleged treason charges brought against Dreyfus seemed to be that he was Jewish.
Emile Zola, a French novelist, playwright, and journalist then published an 1898 article in the Paris daily L'Aurore titled J’Accuse in defense of Dreyfus. The article pointed out what Zola perceived to be corruption and anti-Semitism on the part of the government and military. His championing of Dreyfus was not easy for him and would cost him dearly.
In this book author Michael Rosen does an excellent job of bringing out the drama of this advent. He describes Zola’s flight to London and the pressure that Zola’s actions brought upon him. At times discouragement and even a stark loss of hope plagued Zola. The author paints a picture of Zola that allows the reader to sympathize with both Zola and Dreyfus. Zola continued to write and publish during his exile. They are very demonstrative of his continued protest against corruption in politics and the military.
This book makes it clear that Zola’s bravery in drawing attention to the plight of a loyal Captain Dreyfus sowed the seeds of Dreyfus’ release. In the end, the actions of Zola and other writers caused the complete exoneration and reinstatement of Dreyfus into the Military with a rank increase to Major.
The book is well written, painstakingly researched and very informative but I cannot help but feel that it is perhaps better suited to use as research material. Was I charged with writing a paper of any sort about the Dreyfus Affair, this book would become invaluable. When it comes to being a book to read and enjoy, not so much.
I will give the book three stars, basing the score more on the book’s merit and less on my own enjoyment of the volume…
Quoth the Raven…
This book was an informative collection of information and enjoyable short of being a great biography in itself. Biography is mostly pedestrian in my experience, but useful in rounding out the understanding of a prominent person. This book withered in my hands at the 3/4 stage when I considered I had sufficiently learned what I didn't know about Zola, an interest stimulated by Harris's excellent "Gentleman and a Spy".
Mr Rosen's book is a worthwhile reference to have collected.
The famous French novelist's involvement with the Dreyfus Affair is explained here, from a different angle.
Dr. Rosen describes in clear detail the complexities of Zola's self-imposed short exile to England, where he continued his efforts to obtain justice in France for the wrongly-accused Dreyfus and while he continued his ground-breaking writing career. Meanwhile, all this time, Zola attended to an irregular home life. (In terms of the family, Mrs. Zola, I think, deserves prizes.)
In sum, Zola, a non-Jew, strove for justice and to have Jews treated fairly by the highly conservative French society of the times, with beneficial and long-lasting impacts along the same lines in England.
Dr. Michael Rosen writes well and from knowledge.
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