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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20050701
Author:Thompson, Hannah

Notes from Exile. By EMILE ZOLA. Ed. DOROTHY E. SPEIRS and YANNICK PORTEBOIS. Trans. by YANNICK PORTEBOIS. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2003. xxvi+97 pp. $27.95. ISBN 0-8020-3747-x.

On 18 July 1898 Emile Zola, author of 'J'accuse', was found guilty of slander at Versailles and sentenced to twelve months in prison. That same evening he left for England and remained there in hiding until 5 June 1899, when it was deemed safe for him to return to Paris. Notes from Exile is an intimate account, at once humorous and moving, of Zola's experiences during ...

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