TY  - JOUR
A1  - Henk, Lars Thorben
T1  - Édouard Louis’ «J’accuse». Ein spätmoderner Adept Zolas?
JF  - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik
N2  - French history of literature is undoubtedly characterized by a tradition of social criticism portraying the working class’ misery that can be traced back at least to the 19th century. Among these depictions, Zola’s novels have a prominent position. This is, among other aspects, due to their pretended scientific foundation and their pretentious claims to be scientific studies. The contemporary author Édouard Louis situates himself in this tradition of Zola’s naturalism. This invites us to examine the interrelation between Zola and Louis more closely. Based on the common ground of scientific foundation, scientific ambition and social commitment pursued in their novels, it will be demonstrated that Louis is a late-modern Zola whose milieu and character descriptions follow in detail Zola’s constructions.
KW  - Zola
KW  - misery
KW  - literature
KW  - scientific novel
KW  - Louis
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329777
SN  - 2364-6705
VL  - 8
ER  -