Login
Registered Customers.
Can not sign in? Click here
New Customers ?
By creating an account in our store, you can shop more quickly, take advantage of our special offers, receive our daily site updates on new products, and much more.
Lettre autographe Émile Zola au critique littéraire Hippolyte Fournier au sujet de Germinal
Émile ZOLA
Paris - 6 mars 1885
- Format : In-8.
- Number of volumes : 1
- Collation : 1 p.
L.A.S., 1 p. 1/4 in-8. Missing paper: bottom margin cut out, splits at folds.
Hippolyte Fournier had reviewed Germinal in the March 6, 1885 issue of La Patrie: he described the descriptive part of the novel as " superb ", but criticized Émile Zola for having written " a work of hatred " appealing " to all the evil instincts of the populace ". The author replied, "[he] wanted to be impartial, [he] presented the facts as he saw them. The book is only a warning: we've reached this point, and I believe the catastrophe is fatal if there is no understanding between the classes [...]".
Good condition.
Catalogs & newsletter
Subscribe to the KOEGUI Bookstore newsletter and receive our catalog directly in your mailbox.
Enter your email address in the field below.