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ZOLA EMILE: (1840-1902) - ZOLA EMILE: (1840-1902) French novelist. A good A.L.S., Emile Zola , two pages (written to the first and third sides of the bifolium), 8vo, Paris, 14 th March 1890, to a colleague, in French. Zola commences his letter with gratitude, ‘Je suis, bien heureux, mon cher confrere, de pouvoir vous remercier pleinement et sans restrictions car votre article sur ”La Bete Humaine” m'a fait le plus grand plaisir’ (Translation: ‘I am very happy, my dear colleague, to be able to thank you fully and without restrictions because your article on “La Bete Humaine” gave me the greatest pleasure’ ) and continues ‘Vous y insistez particulierement sur une partie que j'aime moi aussi bien qu'elle disparaisse un peu, comme affacee, dans la violence de l'ensemble; et j'ai ete tres touche de la voir ainsi mise en lumiere par vous’ (Translation: ‘You place particular emphasis on a part that I also like, although it disappears a little, as if subdued, in the violence of the whole; and I was very touched to see it thus brought to light by you’ ). Some very light, extremely minimal age wear, VG Zola’s novel La Bete Humaine (1890) was the seventeenth in his Les Rougon-Macquart series and is a tense psychological thriller based on the railway between Paris and Le Havre in the 19 th century. The story has been adapted for the cinema on several occasions including a 1938 movie of the same title directed by Jean Renoir.