He also wrote literary and art reviews for newspapers. īefore his breakthrough as a writer, Zola worked for minimal pay as a clerk in a shipping firm and then in the sales department for the publisher Hachette. His widowed mother had planned a law career for Émile, but he failed his baccalauréat examination twice. Zola started to write in the romantic style. In 1858, the Zolas moved to Paris, where Émile's childhood friend Paul Cézanne soon joined him. Four years later, in 1847, his father died, leaving his mother on a meager pension. The family moved to Aix-en-Provence in the southeast when Émile was three years old. His father was an Italian engineer with some Greek ancestry, who was born in Venice in 1795, and engineered the Zola Dam in Aix-en-Provence his mother was French. Zola was born in Paris in 1840 to François Zola (originally Francesco Zolla) and Émilie Aubert. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse…! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 19. Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola ( / ˈ z oʊ l ə/, also US: / z oʊ ˈ l ɑː/, French: 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.
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