by Michael Rosen · Faber & Faber Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571312023
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«The Disappearance of Émile Zola» is Michael Rosen's biography of Émile Zola, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (320 pages, in English).
After being convicted of libel for defending an unjustly condemned officer in the Dreyfus affair, Émile Zola flees France and settles on the outskirts of London. There he tries to write a novel while balancing his life between his wife and the mother of his children. Michael Rosen portrays his exile and his courage in the face of the greatest political scandal.
The full title of the work, with its subtitle, is The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case.
For readers of history and literary biographies, particularly those interested in the Dreyfus affair and nineteenth-century France.
Michael Wayne Rosen is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist, and academic, who is a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written more than 200 books for children and adults. Select books include We're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989) and Sad Book (2004). He served as Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. He won the 2023 PEN Pinter Prize, awarded by English PEN, for his "fearless" body of work.
