Nuove storielle a Ninetta

Scritto da Émile Zola

Narrato da Roberto Arricale

Quando Zola aveva circa vent’anni, dopo essere stato bocciato al termine delle scuole, si trovò a lavorare nella libreria di Louis Hachette. Utilizzò il suo tempo libero per scrivere queste storie colme di immaginazione e fantasia. Tutte e nove le storie ruotano attorno al personaggio di Ninetta, cui vengono raccontate. Vista l’età dell’autore ai tempi, e il fatto che la maggior parte dei personaggi nella narrazione hanno all’incirca la stessa età, queste storie sono un’eccellente testimonianza della gioventù e di com’era essere giovani nella Francia dell’800.Emile Zola (1840-1902) è uno dei romanzieri francesi più amati. In genere è ritenuto il capostipite della scuola francese del naturalismo letterario e dalle sue opere sono stati tratti numerosi adattamenti, sia per il cinema che per il teatro. Lo si ricorda soprattutto per la serie “I Rougon-Macquart” e per i romanzi “Germinale”, “Nana” e “Thérèse Raquin”.

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: SAGA Egmont
• Data di uscita: 22 ago 2019
• ISBN: 9788726247596

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.