22 mai 2013
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Jeanne Delbaere-Garant, « Zola », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.922
… it is in the waste … the waste of time, of passion, of curiosity, of contact—that true initiation resides; so that the most wonderful adventures of the artist’s spirit are those, immensely quickening for his ‘authority’, that are yet not reducible to his notes. The reception of Zola in the Anglo-Saxon world throws light not only on the situation of the novel there but also on the difficulty for the Anglo-Saxon mind to accept European pessimism in general and the deterministic explanation of...