Word: zola
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Schiller, Goethe. The latter, I may add, like the later English writers, seems to have drawn much inspiration from that same overthrow - after saying all this, proceeds to evolve Victor Hugo and Theophile Gautier from the paltry revolution of 1830, and from these all the other French writers from Zola to Daudet, the American realist and Tolstoi, which latter, after a pun on the word art, he proceeds to magnify at the expense of Daudet and Zola and Miss Austen. Because much of the experience of Zola and his contemporaries is of the gutter, much of their writing smacks...
...know," says Emile Zola, "why I do not like the American stage? It is superhumanly good - so good that it becomes unnatural. Remember, that a stage need not be unpleasantly realistic in order to be natural. All that is necessary is that you give place to the improper as well as to the proper. Take your women for instance; you write your plays as if there was no such thing on earth as a wicked woman, or that if there is, neither you nor your audience had ever met or heard of one. And so, instead of a handsome, charming...
...Emile Zola is writing a new play for the Odeon; the manager has asked him to be as discreet and virtuous as possible, so that they may announce the play as one to which any young girl might bring her mother...
...death of Gil Perey in a Paris insane asylum is reported. He was the original Coupean of Zola's "L'Assamoire" when the piece was played at the Porte St. Martin Theatre...
...Danish authorities have forbidden the circulation of Zola's works in that country...