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Biografisk notat
Émile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading writer of the Realist school, most famous for his series of twenty social novels, Les Rougon-Macquart. His passion- ate engagement with liberal politics led to his decisive inter- vention in the Dreyfus affair in 1898, the letter `J’accuse...!’"The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible publication." - Historians of Netherlands Art Reviews
"I recall the long hours I sat for him... From time to time, as I posed, half-asleep, I looked at the artist standing at his easel, with features drawn, clear-eyed, engrossed in his work. He had forgotten me, he no longer knew I was there, he simply copied me, as if I were some kind of human beast, with a concentration and artistic integrity that I have seen nowhere else."
Zola's writings on Manet, the most important of which are presented in this volume, were the first to identify the painter's seminal role in the emergence of modern art.