Emile Zola (Emile Zola, 1840 - 1902) - is a French writer, publicist and practitioner of the naturalistic movement in realism. The last thirtieth of the Xix century he was at the top of literary life, he united outstanding writers around himself (G. Flaubert, I. Turgenev, A. Daudet, E. Goncourt and others), was politician - a liberal with socialistic views. "l'assommoir" - is the thirteenth novel ...