Les chroniques zoliennes – hybrides textuelles
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2016
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The journalistic part of Emile Zola’s work is often neglected by critics who
usually focus on the writer’s novels and other texts of fiction. Nonetheless, these writings
worth readers’ and critics’ attention because of their originality based on their
hybrid character. This hybridism concerns their narrative forms, including ‘classical’
press chronicles, causeries (a kind of chat with the potential reader) and confidences
of real or fictive persons. The identity of their author is also hybrid, combining some
traits of a romantic, a positivist and a materialist. The outcome of such a mix of various
attitudes towards the reality is a set of uncomparable texts of both anthropological
and documentary value.
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Zola, journalism, chronicle, hybridism
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"Quêtes littéraires" 2016, nº 6, s. 27-34.