Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Romance Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
45,4 (1998) 203-210
Keywords:
Zola, Émile,
;
Dreyfus, Alfred,
;
Trials (Treason)
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
"Vérité", the last novel that Zola wrote (1902; published in 1903), was correctly seen by reviewers as based on the Dreyfus Affair. The story centers on a Jewish elementary school teacher who is falsely convicted of a heinous crime actually committed by a priest who teaches in the local Catholic school. Previously, Zola had said he would never write about the Affair for profit. Suggests that Zola was spurred to violate his own promise due to his outrage at the passage of the amnesty law of 24 December 1900, which he saw as a dishonest effort to persuade the public that the Affair was over. The amnesty law applied to all those who were involved in the Dreyfus Affair, regardless of guilt or innocence. Zola believed it flew in the face of truth and justice, which for him were the highest values.
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