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"Le jeu est tellement un vice humain..." : le jeu et les joueurs dans les chroniques zoliennes
2016
Émile Zola’s journalistic production, such as chronicles, reportages, polemic texts, etc., was created during a few decades parallelly to his fictional writings. Its subject is often social leisure, including gambling, officially banned in France of the Second Empire but practiced secretly by the social elites and the middle class. Zola describes some places where clandestine gambling games are organized, as well as the gamblers’ behavior. Considering the entire Second Empire regime as a huge gambling house, the author underlines the role of horse racing and stock exchange operations as legał ways of wagering. Zolas particular sense of humor contributes to his chronicles’ documentary and an…
Les chroniques zoliennes - hybrides textuelles
2016
The journalistic part of Emile Zolas work is often neglected by critics who usually focus on the writers novels and other texts of fiction. Nonetheless, these writings worth readers’ and critics’ attention because of their originality based on their hybrid character. This hybridism concerns their narrative forms, including ‘classical’ press chronicles, causeries (a kind of chat with the potential reader) and confidences of real or fictive persons. The identity of their author is also hybrid, combining some traits of a romantic, a positivist and a materialist. The outeome of such a mix of various attitudes towards the reality is a set of uncomparable texts of both anthropological and documen…