The Four Gospels
work by Zola
Also known as: “Les Quatre Évangiles”
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discussed in biography
- In Émile Zola: Life
…and Les Quatre Évangiles (1899–1903; The Four Gospels), are generally conceded to be far less forceful than his earlier work. However, the titles of the novels in the latter series reveal the values that underlay his entire life and work: Fécondité (1899; Fecundity), Travail (1901; Work), Vérité (1903; Truth), and…
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place in French literature
- In French literature: Zola
…Les Quatres Évangiles (1899–1903; “The Four Gospels”), which followed Les Rougon-Macquart, are unreadably didactic, laying bare the obsessions with scientific progress and socialist humanitarianism, and the hostility toward the philosophy and politics of Roman Catholicism, which had been present in a concealed form in the earlier novels. Zola’s contribution…
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