Les Rougon-Macquart is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola. Subtitled "Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire", it follows the ...
WHEN “La Curee” (“The Kill”), the second in Emile Zola’s series of 20 novels on the fortunes and misfortunes of the Rougon-Macquart family, was published in 1871, it was censored for its “gross ...
Editor's Note: Blood, Sex and Money is a groundbreaking adaptation of all 20 novels in Emile Zola's epic Rougon-Macquart family saga for BBC Radio 4. The first part 'Blood' is now available on ...
We’re celebrating the matriarchy, inspired by Emile Zola’s Blood, Sex and Money, the epic Rougon-Macquart family saga. As Adelaide Fouque (Aunt Dide), Glenda Jackson is the narrator and matriarch, and ...
The Daily Telegraph: How Émile Zola made novels out of gutter voices and ultra-violence
'London is in want of a writer like Émile Zola,” declared an 1882 editorial in this paper. “Here in this town of splendid palaces, where wine flows like water, and every kind of luxury is present in ...
The Guardian: Emile Zola's characters drink, swear and have sex a lot. Is this why Britain has spurned him?
I had my first encounter with Emile Zola 20 years ago. Knowing almost nothing about the reputedly gloomy French novelist, I went to see a stage adaptation of Nana, his portrait of a Parisian courtesan ...
Emile Zola's characters drink, swear and have sex a lot. Is this why Britain has spurned him?