Word: zola
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lloyd McKim Garrison lectured last evening before the Conference Franchise on "Realism," as exemplified in La Terre, by Emil Zola. He said in brief that the code of morals depicted was far from that which exists, and which one would wish for. He further said that the demands for books of this sort was due to the low tastes in some classes, caused in part by the literature of the day, but that such a book would have no effect on the general tone of the people. The question was commented upon from the floor, then the Conference adjourned...
...words and dallies with its pollysyllabic names. The whole epic is compressed into a dozen pages; the fewer the better fare.' A somewhat weak poem in a some what far fetched metre is contributed by Mr. Sanford, and next follows a strong essay, written by Mr. Fletcher, on Zola's "L'Assommoir", sickening subject. The description of the book does it justice. The criticism of it is not quite fair to M. Zola. The French idea of art has been ably expressed and developed by M. Taine, and may be summarized in the words, "Art" is the emphazing one truth...
...same time "shading her eyes from the hot sun." Smoking with reflected heat, probably. The essay on "Modern Realism" is partly true and a little untrue in places. The writer shows a trifle of feminine mawkishness in speaking of French realism - perhaps he is thinking of Zola - though we don't believe in displaying the under side of art, as Dumas has said, any more than anybody else does. - Tale Courant...
...form - allowing of course for intrinsic difference of language - of our lighter literature has come from Paris - for instance, the kind of short stories that seems to be the prevailing type of American writing now, is, I think, almost altogether a graft from French stock, such writings as Zola's "Contes a Nanon," Guyde Maupassant's somewhat vile anecdotes, and Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" being its progenitors. And as of the short stories, so of the novels. Balzac seems to me the first novelist who could dissect a woman. Defoe tried to analyze a woman of the lower grade...
...again, if we may trust the statements of such as Zola, Daudet, Balzac and Theophile Gautier - men who have been through the mill - the Bohemia whence they started is a hotbed...