An English translation of Zola's J'Accuse , and letters, articles, and interviews tracking the author's denunciation of the arrest and imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army captain accused of espionage in 1894. Zola's writings document the "Dreyfus Affair," its political and cultural implications of fanaticism and prejudice, and the novelist's human rights defenses which led to his own trial, imprisonment, and year long exile in England. The editor supplies notes, a chronology, and biographies of the key players in the Dreyfus Affair. Includes some photographs and reproductions from the period's newspapers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Language Notes:
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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Written in defense of the court-martialed French soldier Alfred Dreyfus, Zola's essay "J'accuse!" is one of the most famous pieces of rhetorical journalism ever published. This volume collects, for the first time in English, all of Zola's writings on the Dreyfus Affair. Zola's many essays and open letters balance a seething fury at injustice with unrelenting, fiercely logical assaults on Dreyfus's accusers. Balancing these polemics are Zola's poignant, sadly domestic letters home during the year he spent exiled in England after his 1898 libel conviction. Levieux's readable translation lets Zola's forceful, somewhat bombastic tone shine through. The volume is not really a history of the affair, and the notes by Pages (editor of the French edition of Zola's letters) are sparse. (A more comprehensive treatment is available in Jean-Denis Bredin's The Affair, Braziller, 1986.) Instead, the Yale volume is documentation of one man's extraordinary public efforts to clear another's name. Recommended for academic collections.?Robert Persing, Univ. of Pennsylvania Lib., Philadelphia
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0300066899
- ISBN 13 9780300066890
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages244
- EditorPages Alain
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