Une page d'amour

Par Émile Zola

Une édition de référence d’Une page d’amour d’Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.

« Mon Dieu ! Et ne savoir que faire ! Comme ça, brusquement, dans la nuit. Pas même de lumière. Ses idées se brouillaient. Elle continuait de causer à sa fille, l’interrogeant et répondant pour elle. C’était dans l’estomac que ça la tenait ; non, dans la gorge. Ce ne serait rien. Il fallait du calme. Et elle faisait un effort pour avoir elle-même toute sa tête. Mais la sensation de sa fille raide entre ses bras lui soulevait les entrailles. Elle la regardait, convulsée et sans souffle ; elle tâchait de raisonner, de résister au besoin de crier. Tout à coup, malgré elle, elle cria.

Elle traversa la salle à manger et la cuisine, appelant :

– Rosalie ! Rosalie !... Vite, un médecin !... Mon enfant se meurt ! » (Extrait du chapitre 1)

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Candide & Cyrano
• Date de sortie: 1 janv. 2012
• ISBN: 9782806242358

Émile Zola

Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist, journalist, and playwright. Born in Paris to a French mother and Italian father, Zola was raised in Aix-en-Provence. At 18, Zola moved back to Paris, where he befriended Paul Cézanne and began his writing career. During this early period, Zola worked as a clerk for a publisher while writing literary and art reviews as well as political journalism for local newspapers. Following the success of his novel Thérèse Raquin (1867), Zola began a series of twenty novels known as Les Rougon-Macquart, a sprawling collection following the fates of a single family living under the Second Empire of Napoleon III. Zola’s work earned him a reputation as a leading figure in literary naturalism, a style noted for its rejection of Romanticism in favor of detachment, rationalism, and social commentary. Following the infamous Dreyfus affair of 1894, in which a French-Jewish artillery officer was falsely convicted of spying for the German Embassy, Zola wrote a scathing open letter to French President Félix Faure accusing the government and military of antisemitism and obstruction of justice. Having sacrificed his reputation as a writer and intellectual, Zola helped reverse public opinion on the affair, placing pressure on the government that led to Dreyfus’ full exoneration in 1906. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902, Zola is considered one of the most influential and talented writers in French history.