
As the author of the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series, mile Zola enjoys a reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century: but his essays on painting, and in particular his early championing of Manet, mark him out also as one of the most significant art...

"As the author of the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series, ?Emile Zola enjoys a reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century: but his essays on painting, and in particular his early championing of Manet, mark him out also as one of the most significant art...