Talk:Émile Zola

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Contents 1 Zola dictionary 2 Croat 3 First English Translations 4 broken link 5 Bad link 6 Paragraphing 7 pronunciation 8 Accent on name

[edit] Zola dictionary

I've been integerating material from the public domain Zola dictionary, if anyone else want to lend a hand it's available from,

http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/zladc10.txt

--Imran 22:13 Dec 7, 2002 (UTC)

I'd be wary of using Patterson as a source - the Zola Dictionary dates from 1912 (so it's not any more authoritative than the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica), and almost everything he says is out of date and/or contradicted by later Zola studies. In particular, he is writing from a prudish Edwardian English perspective - the Vizetelly translations that are still in print today, bowdlerised first by Henry and then re-censored and largely rewritten by Ernest, are not taken seriously by any student of literature except as quaint examples of Victorian censorship gone mad. The Lutetian Society versions are also very widely available, having been reprinted several times since Patterson was writing; these translations have also all been superseded, with the possible exception of La Curée. His description of the Vizetelly trial is a little inaccurate too; a good source of information concerning the trial, complete with excerpts from the judge and counsel in the case, is Graham King's Garden of Zola. Fosse8

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[edit] Croat

Zola is listed in List of Croats. Why?

I'm not sure to be honest. See that talk page. --Shallot 12:40, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] First English Translations

See the Wikipedia article on Henry Vizetelly the English Publisher, who was prosecuted for publishing The Earth (and Discussion Page).

Vernon White 15:40, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] broken link

I removed this link as it was broken. here it is if anyone wants to fiddle:

• Family tree of the Rougon-Macquart families

Felonati 18:26, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bad link

The link titled "Travail" links to a stub on a musical group. Don't know how to fix it, but it's not right.

[edit] Paragraphing

This is my pet bugbear, but the paragraphing in the biography section needs work, preferably by the editors who've written the existing material and therefore are most comfortable with the section. At the moment, they're all one sentence paras, even when there's an obvious thematic thread (i.e. Dreyfus etc), and this makes things confusing. Sound reasonable? Ajcounter 15:41, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] pronunciation

How do you pronounce Emile? Is it "EH-MEEL"? Or "Emily"? Is "Emily" a mispronunciation of the French, but an acceptable Americanized pronunciation?

It's "Ay-meel". "Emily" is flat wrong no matter what country you're in. 84.92.8.221 14:43, 19 July 2007 (UTC) (fosse8)

[edit] Accent on name

Normal correct French usage is not to put an accent on capitals, so I propose moving the article to Emile Zola. Ty 01:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Really? Why does French Wikipedia also use the accent mark? --D. Monack | talk 01:29, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

It is a matter of some debate, and certainly you can find texts that don't put accents on capitals. But it's hard to get more authoritative than the Académie française, which does recommend the accentuation of all capitals: [1]. Lesgles (talk) 01:37, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. Ty 01:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)