Zola

[ zoh-luh; French zaw-la ]

/ ˈzoʊ lə; French zɔˈla /

noun

É·mile

[ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/,1840–1902, French novelist.

OTHER WORDS FROM Zola

Zo·la·esque, adjective

Example sentences from the Web for zola

Okay, not everything in this book meets the standards of realism as practiced by Balzac and Zola.

What are the Best Novels on Music? |Ted Gioia |October 19, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The great continental leaders of realism—Tolstoi, Zola, Ibsen—have been tainted with a fatal pessimism.

Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism |F. V. N. Painter
The private-business meetings are generally more scenic, especially when we discuss Zola or finance.

The Strand Magazine, Volume VII, Issue 41, May, 1894 |Various
To say nothing of the Zola trial, we now have the Cuban War!

The Letters of William James, Vol. II |William James

This is the Zola method, but it is that method with a difference.

My Contemporaries In Fiction |David Christie Murray
Among these I read one from a priest, who seemed convinced that before long Zola would be a convert.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for zola

Zola

/ (ˈzəʊlə, French zɔla) /

noun

Émile (emil). 1840–1902, French novelist and critic; chief exponent of naturalism. In Les Rougon-Macquart (1871–93), a cycle of 20 novels, he explains the behaviour of his characters in terms of their heredity: it includes L'Assommoir (1877), Nana (1880), Germinal (1885), and La Terre (1887). He is also noted for his defence of Dreyfus in his pamphlet J'accuse (1898)

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