Tag Archives: Emile Zola

dreyfus was a goner

Why we cannot forget Dreyfus… …By having Du Paty deliver his memorandum at the last minute in a semi-clendestine way, and by enjoining the court to keep its contents secret, Gen. Auguste Mercier deprived the defense of its legal right … Continue reading

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captain dreyfus: court farcial

…The premier, Charles Aexandre Dupuy, the foreign minister, Gabriel Hanotux, and other cabinet colleagues whom Mercier consulted, had advised against hasty action in the case: the reactions of both the French public and the German Kaiser were dangerously unpredictable. Gen. … Continue reading

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spy vs. spy: wilde for dreyfus

Remembering Dreyfus. The time was la belle epoque, and the stage was France. But the chief actors in the drama- the double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians, and anti-Semites posing as patriots- have remained on the political scene ever since… … Continue reading

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dreyfus: baked in psychosis

The Dreyfus affair and the continuing saga of French “identite nationale.” It is imperative not to consign Dreyfus to the scrap heap of history. The time was la belle epoque and the stage was France, liberal democracy, Voltaire , Proust … Continue reading

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dreyfus: cones of darkness

Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. The time was la belle epoque, and the stage was France. But the chief actors in the drama- the double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians, and anti-Semites posing as patriots- have remained on the political … Continue reading

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lest we forget dreyfus

Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. The time was la belle epoque, and the stage was france. But the chief actors in the drama- the double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians, and anti-Semites posing as patriots- have remained on the political … Continue reading

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dual diction

The massive, gossipy Journal of the Goncourt brothers is one of the longest, most absorbing, and perhaps the most enlightening diary in European literature. It is the brilliantly observed, vividly recorded details that make the essential merit of the Goncourt … Continue reading

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acts of despair in the face of infinity

“Debauchery,” the Goncourts wrote in 1861,”is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.” …The Goncourts wrote prolifically in every genre, but they never had the kind of success they so desperately wanted. They were less admired than … Continue reading

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goncourt: red-hot scalpel

The bothers Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, were nobly born. They were rich. But they had the misfortune to be intelligent. Therefore, they were unhappy. They wanted to be famous; they longed to be eminent authors, princes in the realm of … Continue reading

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compromised complex structures

A de-idealization of the human figure. A coldness. An absence of a humanizing purpose. A bit of spitefulness and the malicious thrown in for effect. Willem de Kooning continues to divide critics and pubic. On on part, a misogynist, sexist … Continue reading

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