French writer Zola Emil. Works that are not forgotten after many years

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Zola Emil is the author of works that are still popular today. He is a classic of foreign literature of the XIX century. He was born in the most beautiful and loving city of France, Paris, as they would say now, under the sign of Aries (April 2, 1840). The writer had a purposeful and passionate nature, which was clearly emphasized in his works. Unlike his contemporaries, he vividly expressed his own opinion on the pages of his books, for which, according to some versions, he paid the price as a result.

Who is he

Many fans of creativity may be interested in a biography. Emile Zola was left without a father very early. His father, a native of Italy, an engineer by profession, built a water canal in the city of Aix-en-Provence. It was there that the Zola family lived. But hard work and great responsibility did not allow the father to see his son as an adult. He died early, leaving the boy an orphan at the age of seven.

Against this background, the child experienced a personal drama. Left with his mother, he began to disdain everyonemen. The family experienced financial difficulties, the widow, hoping for help from friends, left for Paris.

The beginning of the creative path

In the capital, Zola graduated from a lyceum and, by chance, got a job at a publishing house, where she began to earn good money. What is the young man doing? He writes reviews, tries his hand at writing literary works.

Zola Emil - an extremely sensitive nature, emotional experiences and a beggarly existence immediately after the death of his father did not kill the romance in him. He had poor eyesight and speech defects, but with all this he sang beautifully. At the age of eighteen, he falls in love with a girl of twelve for the first time. The relationship of the two young people was the most tender and innocent. But in the rest of his life, he was not so chaste.

At the age of 25, the future writer meets, falls in love and marries Alexandrina Meley. They did not have children, which made the spouses completely strangers, since both passionately desired to have a full-fledged family.

Literary activity and family life

Zola Emil puts all his dissatisfaction with family life into creativity. His novels are literally literary traditions, so frankly and openly the writer showed the public forbidden topics. Only the author himself remained aloof, not sympathizing with what he was writing about.

He lived with his wife for eighteen years, but was not truly happy. Only acquaintance with Zhanna Rosro, a twenty-year-old tall dark-eyed girl, allowed him to slightly change his worldview. ZolaEmil falls in love and buys a separate house for her. And during this period of his life, he managed to know the happy feeling of fatherhood, because Jeanne bore him two children. For two years, the lovers managed to hide the relationship, but in the end he tells his wife the whole truth. Of course, this could not but upset Alexandrina, but soon she realizes that she should not get divorced and scandalous, she accepts children, and after Jeanne's death she takes care of them closely and agrees to give her father's surname.

Creativity

The author's list of books is great. He began to create literary masterpieces very early. His collection of short stories, Tales of Ninon, was written when he was twenty-four years old. Each novel by Emile Zola was popular with readers. The characters, although fictional, were written off by the author from nature. Therefore, the characters are easily recognizable.

There are works that are considered his best creations. Such is the novel "The Trap". In it, the author revealed the reasons for the beggarly existence of his heroes. Their laziness and unwillingness to find work is the result that readers can observe: extreme poverty, alcoholism, spiritual impoverishment.

The following are the most famous works of the author:

• The epic "Ruggon-Makkara";
• "The Rougon Career";
• "Money";
• "Production";
• "Womb of Paris";
• "Deed of Abbé Mouret";
• "Germinal";
• "Nana";
• "Beast Man".

Death of the author

Zola Emil leads an active political life. And the death of the writer due to the fact of his involvement in politics has not quite clearly expressed reasons. According to the official version, the author died, having the imprudence of carbon monoxide poisoning in his own apartment. But there are also unofficial suggestions that the writer was killed. Moreover, his political enemies had a hand in the atrocity.

Many modern educated people of our time read his novels. If you read some reviews of his most famous works, you will notice that readers note the genuine veracity of the described state of the mendicant class in Paris. That is why he is referred to as realist writers, depicting a true picture of the life of ordinary Parisian workers, people who are not rich. Starting to read Emile Zola, one involuntarily has to pay attention to the autobiographical nature of his prose.

To say how good the author is, how clear his creations are, you need to study the period when he lived and created Zola Emile. Biography, list of books, reviews and all other information about him is very controversial and is no less fascinating reading than his novels.