“- Je veux qu'on s'écrabouille pour Emile Zola. Tu connais Zola, quand même ? - Le Gorgon Zola, oui, je connais.” HumourEmile ZolaJeu De Mots Book:Le talent d’Achille Source: Le talent d’Achille
“MARY: Catherine! Is it necessary to include such a detail? CATHERINE: Do you expect our readers to believe that we had no bodily needs or functions for entire days at a time? MARY: No, but such things are simply—unstated. They go without saying. CATHERINE: It’s very fashionable now to include realistic details, no matter how unpleasant or improper. Look at the French writers. Look at Émile Zola. MARY: We are not French.” RealisticToiletMary JekyllCatherine MoreauDetails MatterEmile Zola Book:European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman Source: European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
“For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.” NatureFeminineDecadenceUncannyPathologyDecadentEmile ZolaJoris Kerl Huysmans Author:Charles Bernheimer