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Or search the encyclopaedia: Go French novelist and social reformer. He made his name with (1867), a grim, powerful story of remorse. With (1867) he began a series of some 20 naturalistic novels collectively known as , portraying the fortunes of a French family under the Second Empire. They include Nana (1880), and (1892). In 1898 he published , a pamphlet indicting the persecutors of Alfred Dreyfus , for which he was prosecuted for libel but later pardoned. Zola was born in Paris. He became a journalist and a clerk in the publishing house of Hachette. He wrote literary and art criticisms and published several collections of short stories, beginning with (1864). Having discovered his real talent as a novelist, he produced the volumes of | |
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