by Émile Zola · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483105795
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This book is a dossier that gathers and comments on Émile Zola's controversial writings related to the Dreyfus affair, culminating with his famous article 'I accuse'. In 1894, after a betrayal was discovered in the French army, a fraudulent court-martial condemned Captain Dreyfus, a Jewish officer. Outraged by this injustice, Zola intervened with his pen, publishing 'I accuse', which earned him a one-year prison sentence and generated intense reactions. The controversy unleashed by Zola questioned the State, the judiciary, the Church, the media, and public opinion, giving rise to the figure of the committed intellectual.
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse...! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
