
Emile Zola, as painted by Edouard Manet in 1868. The almost-over 2021 is the 150th anniversary of the first of the 20 novels in Emile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle. So, I’m writing this appreciation of the French author just in time. 🙂 Zola is nowhere near the best-known novelist of the 19th-century, but he’s in the top couple […]
An Anniversary Appreciation of Emile Zola