UNE HANTISE DE L’ÉCRIVAIN NATURALISTE : LA DOCUMENTATION
UNE HANTISE DE L’ÉCRIVAIN NATURALISTE : LA DOCUMENTATION

Summary/Abstract: For the naturalist novelist, observer and experimentalist at the same time, research represents the indestructible basics of his work, an imperative stage within the creative act. Zola fully embraces the naturalist credo through his detailed notes and thorough documentation for each novel of his. By virtue of the information offered to us by his enquiry notebooks, we have a remarkable sample of the naturalists’ obsession for drawing up an accurate picture of society. More so, this data enables us to establish the boundary between reality and fiction in Zola’s work and to underline the creative undertaking of the novelist. Les carnets d’enquête represent one of the essential basics for the analysis of Zola’s Rougon-Macqauart series with an emphasis for his Au bonheur des dames novel.

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