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156 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Friday, 20 August 1880.
in note b:
...dart. The term ‘sclôneuse’ (a woman who worked in the pits) is also found in Zola’s Germinal.
175 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, between Wednesday, 12 and Saturday, 15 October 1881.
in note 3:
...bout the intractability of nature also occurs in Zola and Taine. See Sund 1992, pp. 54, 277 (n. 11).
190 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Wednesday, 23 November 1881.
in note 5:
...��s opinion this passage indicates knowledge of Zola’s essay ‘Le moment artistique’, published ...
244 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 6 July 1882.
in translation:
...ession on me. In ‘Une page d’amour’ by Emile Zola I found several townscapes painted or drawn i...
in note 5:
Several chapters of Zola’s Comment on meurt appeared in Le Figaro as a prepublication. La mort du p...
in note 4:
...– unknown – drawing that had its origins in Zola’s ‘Ce que je veux’ (What I want) of 1859. ...
in note 3:
In Zola’s novel Une page d’amour (1878) the widow Hélène Mouret lives in Passy with her nervous...
245 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 6 and Friday, 7 July 1882.
in translation:
P. S. That Emile Zola is a superb artist. I’m now reading ‘Le ventre de Paris’, it’s mightily...
in note 16:
Emile Zola’s Le ventre de Paris (1873) is set mainly in ‘Les Halles’, the newly-built food mark...
250 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 23 July 1882.
in translation:
...o have read Le ventre de Paris recently. I’ve also read Nana. Listen, Zola is actually Balzac II.
Balzac I portrays the society of 1815-1848, Zola begins where Balzac leaves off and goes on to Sedan ...
...in a person, as in Mme François in the book by Zola. But I have no humanitarian plans or ideas, as i...
P.S. Read lots of Zola, it’s healthy stuff and clears the mind.
in note 12:
... at the market of Nanterre. At the beginning of Zola’s Le ventre de Paris she is riding with her me...
in note 10:
...ion was widely shared. Critics also referred to Zola at that time as the new Balzac. The publisher Ch...
in note 9:
The heroine of Zola’s novel Nana (1880) escapes from the wretched conditions in which her parents l...
in note 8:
The novel Le ventre de Paris (1873) by Emile Zola.
251 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Wednesday, 26 July 1882.
in translation:
...volume of L’Artiste. I’m still under the spell of Zola’s books. How painted those Halles are.
in note 14:
...re omnipresent in the novel Le ventre de Paris. Zola describes the gigantic constructions in iron and...
255 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 10 and Friday, 11 August 1882.
in translation:
I’m busy with Zola’s ‘La curée’.
in note 6:
Emile Zola’s novel of manners La curée (1871) is set in aristocratic circles during the Second Emp...
259 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 26 August 1882.
in translation:
I’ve also read Zola’s La faute de l’abbé Mouret and Son Excellence Eugène Rougon, also beauti...
in note 10:
...stocratic Rougon family, who are at the core of Zola’s cycle of novels, are marked by physical and ...
in note 9:
Zola’s novel Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (1876) is about ambition and power, which govern the ups...
in note 8:
The leading character in Emile Zola’s novel La faute de l’abbé Mouret (1875) is Serge Mouret, a ...
260 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 3 September 1882.
in translation:
...e corners of rooms at a soirée or meal such as Zola describes, for example. Now, if this month a lit...
in note 11:
In chapter 7 of Zola’s L’assommoir (1877) there is the following description of the birthday part...
267 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 19 September 1882.
in note 25:
Vincent had earlier written to Theo: ‘Zola is actually Balzac ii’: see letter 250.
in translation:
...n forms. Just as one must read Dickens or Balzac or Zola in their entirety to know them separately.
...years ago. When I was ill and afterwards I read Zola’s books with great admiration. I thought that ...
274 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 22 October 1882.
in translation:
...en one is feeling weak. And those of Balzac and Zola among the French writers just as much. As yet I ...
283 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 16 or Friday, 17 November 1882.
in translation:
This evening I’ll begin reading Pot-bouille by Zola.
in note 14:
...ecent novel in the Rougeon-Macquart-cycle by Emile Zola. The lead character is Octave Mouret, who mov...
286 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 24 November 1882.
in translation:
I’ve finished the book by Zola, Pot-bouille. I thought the most powerful passage was the kitchen ma...
But after Zola’s book I read Quatre vingt treize by V. Hugo at long last. That’s entirely differe...
in note 5:
For Zola’s Pot-bouille, see letter 283, n. 14. The Breton maid Adèle manages to keep secret her pr...
288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.
in translation:
...m (his painters are fairly uninteresting). Even Zola might be right in his Claude Lantier — Claude ...
in note 4:
Claude Lantier is a character in Zola’s novel Le ventre de Paris (1873), which Van Gogh had read a ...
293 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 11 December 1882.
in translation:
... appeared in the difficult but noble time. What Zola calls the triumph of mediocrity takes place: sco...
310 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 8 February 1883.
in translation:
...too. There are sometimes passages in Balzac and Zola – in Père Goriot, for example – in which on...
in note 15:
Josserand is a character in Emile Zola, Pot-bouille. For him cf. letter 286, n. 5.
316 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 15 February 1883.
in translation:
...iot, Middlemarch. Eliot analyzes like Balzac or Zola, but English situations and with an English feel...
333 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 29 March and Sunday, 1 April 1883.
in translation:
I saw that a new volume by Zola has come out: ‘Au bonheur des dames’, if I remember rightly.
in note 35:
Emile Zola’s novel Au bonheur des dames, in the series Les Rougon-Macquart, appeared in 75 instalme...
337 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 21 April 1883.
in translation:
Somewhere in a preface by Zola there are the following words, I believe in this form: ‘Yet these wo...
in note 4:
...he following passage from the ‘Préface’ to Zola’s L’assommoir, dated 1 January 1877: ‘We m...
338 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 30 April 1883.
in translation:
How beautiful Zola is — it’s L’assommoir above all that I often think of. Tell me — how are y...
...that Victor Hugo analyzes in a different way from Balzac and Zola, but he sees through things too.
in note 13:
...ut: ‘That is all in the same spirit and is to Zola as, say, Brion is to Heyerdahl and Edelfelt’.
in note 12:
It is clear from this that Van Gogh had read Zola’s novel L’assommoir (1877), although letter 260...
342 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 10 May 1883.
in translation:
...monnier — very strongly done in the manner of Zola. Everything observed from nature and everything ...
344 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 21 May 1883.
in note 1:
...e from “le paradou”’ (ll. 112-113). In Emile Zola’s La faute de l’abbé Mouret (1875) ‘Le...
345 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 21 May 1883.
in translation:
...od is that one sees books in your studio, Hugo, Zola, Dickens – figure painter books. Will send you...
...sn’t know writers like Dickens, Balzac, Hugo, Zola until one has more or less full knowledge of the...
347 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 30 May 1883.
in note 8:
For the reference to ‘Le Paradou’ in Emile Zola’s La faute de l’abbé Mouret (1875) , see let...
354 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Friday, 15 June 1883.
in translation:
... about a fortnight so that I can read them), and Zola’s book about Manet if you’ve finished it.
in note 16:
Emile Zola, Ed. Manet, étude biographique et critique. This study of Edouard Manet in several dozen ...
355 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 16 June 1883.
in translation:
... one were reading a description of a factory by Zola or Daudet or Lemonnier. I’ve marked a passage ...
358 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 2 July 1883.
in note 20:
This passage from Zola criticizing the attitude of the art-loving public reads: ‘And note that what...
in translation:
I read ‘Mes haines’ by Zola — there are strong things in it, although in my view he is greatly ...
in note 19:
...theless, it is not clear what Van Gogh means by Zola’s ‘general reflections’. In none of the th...
in note 11:
...�’ is expressed emphatically several times in Zola’s Mes haines, which at the end Van Gogh says h...
359 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 July 1883.
in translation:
... consignment of books. I would like to apply to Zola’s Mes haines Zola’s own words about Hugo, �...
...by saying that I’m not one of those who blame Zola for this book. Through it I’m getting to know ...
...owever, inevitably raised by this criticism: is Zola familiar with the Alsace, and if he were, wouldn...
What Zola has in common with Balzac is that he knows little about painting. I think two artist types ...
...easure. Why? For the same reason as the book by Zola. Because of the personality of the man who wrote...
Have you noticed that Zola doesn’t even mention Millet? Yet I read a description by Zola of a count...
I’d like to put to Zola the question that I’d like to put to some other people. Tell me, is it tr...
in note 14:
A reference to Zola’s story La mort du paysan, included in Comment on meurt, which Van Gogh had men...
in note 6:
For Claude Lantier in Le ventre de Paris by Zola, see letter 288, n. 4. In Zola’s novel Thérèse R...
in note 2:
Zola received numerous indignant letters provoked by Mes haines; subscriptions to the magazine L’Ev...
in note 1:
Borrowed from Zola’s article ‘Les chansons des rues et des bois’ in Mes haines: ‘Given Victor...
360 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Saturday, 7 July 1883.
in translation:
De Bock has also taken to reading Zola and had read Le Nabab by Daudet as well. Do you know Germinie ...
361 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 11 July 1883.
in note 9:
...e naturalistic approach to art as formulated by Zola. In Mes haines he defined a good work of art as:...
367 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 25 July 1883.
in translation:
...ntrary I can agree with what I read recently in Zola, ‘If at present I’m worth something, it’s ...
in note 12:
...Gogh would have based this statement on what Emile Zola had written in Mon Salon: ‘Ask M. Daubigny ...
in note 9:
...tion is a compilation of several sentences from Zola’s foreword in Mes haines: ‘If at present I a...
379 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 23 and about Wednesday, 29 August 1883.
in translation:
What Zola says seems to me to be true, ‘Yet these women are not bad, for their faults and their fal...
in note 3:
For this quotation from the preface to Zola’s L’assommoir, see letter 337, n. 4.
381 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 5 September 1883.
in note 4:
For the reference to ‘Le Paradou’ in Emile Zola’s La faute de l’abbé Mouret (1875), see lett...
388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
in note 9:
Nana, the eponymous protagonist of Emile Zola’s novel Nana of 1880, is the type that Van Gogh descr...
397 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Tuesday, 16 October 1883.
in translation:
... I consider to be not immaterial. You’ve read Zola’s books in another and better way than most �...
in note 3:
...is a reference to Octave Mouret, a character in Zola’s novel Pot-bouille (1882) who comes to Paris ...
400 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Sunday, 28 October 1883.
in translation:
...ement. I ask, what most makes me a human being. Zola says — I, an artist, I want to live life to th...
in note 5:
This expression is taken from Zola’s essay ‘Proudhon et Courbet’, in which he observes: ‘If y...
403 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 5 November 1883.
in translation:
...ls, Herkomer — not to mention Michelet, Hugo, Zola, Balzac, a host more from the more distant and m...
415 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 December 1883.
in note 6:
‘Vivre tout haut’ (live to the full) is taken from Zola, see letter 400, n. 5.
428 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 3 February 1884.
in translation:
...found Manet’s work very original. Do you know Zola’s piece on Manet? I regret that I’ve only se...
in note 11:
In Ed. Manet, étude biographique et critique, Zola proclaimed Manet as a painter of the future: ‘I...
in note 9:
In the compilation edition of Zola’s Mes haines, which Van Gogh knew and refers to a little later, ...
438 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Saturday, 15 and about Wednesday, 19 March 1884.
in translation:
...s or warmth towards each other. And I find what Zola says about dragging things on as true as you do ...
452 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 20 July 1884.
in note 6:
The formulation is probably derived from what Zola wrote in Mes haines: ‘He felt himself dragged by...
458 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 21 September 1884.
in note 11:
In Emile Zola’s novel Au bonheur des dames (1883) the character of Octave Mouret, talking about the...
464 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 2 October 1884.
in translation:
...eur des dames’ wouldn’t add particularly to Zola’s reputation. I find some of the greatest and ...
Read Zola’s description of women in a room at dusk — women often already past 30, up to 50 — su...
in note 16:
A reference back to the quotation from Zola (ll. 125-127).
in note 10:
Taken from the quotation from Zola written out later in the letter. See l. 121.
in note 4:
...dded later; the italics and emphasis are not in Zola. Unlike Bourdoncle, Mouret has a sensual nature ...
in note 2:
Octave Mouret is a character in Zola’s novels Pot-bouille (1882) and Au bonheur des dames (1883), w...
468 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 2 November 1884.
in note 5:
A reference to the character of Bourdoncle in Zola’s Au bonheur des dames, to whom Vincent likened ...
in note 3:
The word ‘Agir’ (act) is part of the quotation from Zola’s Au bonheur des dames in letter 464.
492 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 9 April 1885.
in note 6:
...of ... vivre) later. This may be an allusion to Zola’s novel La joie de vivre, which he read at abo...
in note 3:
... coin de la nature vu à travers d’un temperament’ in Zola’s Mes haines. See letter 361, n. 9.
495 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 21 April 1885.
in note 12:
There is an echo here of what Emile Zola had written in ‘Les réalistes du Salon’ (Mon Salon): �...
497 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 30 April 1885.
in note 3:
... ‘agir-créer’ is taken from the passage in Zola’s Au bonheur des dames that Van Gogh had copie...
502 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 22 May 1885.
in translation:
Have you finished Zola’s book, Germinal, yet? I’d very much like to read it and will send it back...
in note 19:
Léon Augustin Lhermitte drew Le mois de Marie à Chartèves (The month of May at Chartèves) (presen...
in note 18:
In Germinal (1885) Emile Zola describes the misery of the miner’s life, the brutal struggle for sur...
505 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 28 May 1885.
in note 1:
In letter 502 Vincent had asked Theo to send Zola’s novel, something that Theo had evidently previo...
506 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 2 June 1885.
in note 20:
A quotation from Zola’s Au bonheur des dames: see letter 464, n. 12.
in note 18:
Mouret and Bourdoncle are characters in Zola’s Au bonheur des dames: Van Gogh contrasted them in le...
in note 8:
Taken, with some discrepancies, from Zola’s Germinal (see Zola 1960-1967, vol. 3, p. 1525).
508 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 15 June 1885.
in note 8:
The novel Germinal by Emile Zola, which Theo had sent: see letter 505.
509 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 22 June 1885.
in note 12:
Octave Mouret, a character in Zola’s cycle Les Rougon-Macquart, marries Mrs Hédouin, who manages t...
in note 8:
...beau is the director of the mines in Montsou in Zola’s novel Germinal. He had previously lived in P...
515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
in translation:
...ely unlike peasants — I like a fine portrait. Zola who otherwise, to my mind, often makes colossal ...
in note 11:
The quotation is taken from Zola’s ‘Le moment artistique’ in Mon Salon: ‘What I look for abov...
537 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 28 October 1885.
in translation:
...Y, realism and naturalism are not free of them. Zola creates, but doesn’t hold a mirror up to thing...
539 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 7 November 1885.
in translation:
...generous and loyal about him. This is something Zola once referred to — when in a conversation betw...
in note 8:
In Zola’s novel Germinal the simple Bonnemort, an old man who has lived all his life in and around ...
541 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 14 November 1885.
in translation:
...— Van de Loo is enormously scrupulous and — Zola-like cool and calm. Anyhow — I’ll speak to W...
550 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Monday, 28 December 1885.
in translation:
...y of the studies of women by the very great people in literature, Zola, Daudet, De Goncourt, Balzac.
552 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, between Tuesday, 12 and Saturday, 16 January 1886.
in translation:
The other day I saw an excerpt from Zola’s new book for the first time, ‘L’oeuvre’, which as ...
in note 11:
... both admired by Van Gogh. The serialization of Zola’s L’oeuvre appeared in Gil Blas in 80 instal...
556 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Friday, 29 January 1886.
in translation:
...it. Look at Millet and Sensier, look at Balzac, Zola, De Goncourt. Look at Delacroix. All the s...
560 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 9 February 1886.
in translation:
...s will be able to breathe more freely. Men like Zola and the De Goncourts believe in it with the simp...
561 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Thursday, 11 February 1886.
in translation:
...ave experienced. It struck me in a chapter from Zola’s L’oeuvre in Gil Blas — that the painter ...
in note 7:
See for Zola’s L’oeuvre letter 552, n. 11. The extract from Zola’s L’oeuvre quoted by Van Gog...
568 Vincent van Gogh and Andries Bonger to Theo van Gogh. Paris, on or about Wednesday, 18 August 1886.
in note 10:
See for Zola’s Au bonheur des dames: letter 333, n. 35, and letter 464, n. 2 ff.
574 To Willemien van Gogh. Paris, late October 1887.
in note 22:
...See 6th ed. Paris 1885, vol. 1, p. xv. In 1868, Zola had sent his novel Thérèse Raquin to Sainte-Be...
in translation:
...example, in Germinie Lacerteux, La fille Elisa, Zola in La joie de vivre and L’assommoir and so man...
The work of the French naturalists Zola, Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, De Goncourt, Richepin, Daudet, ...
in note 8:
See for Zola’s L’assommoir: letter 338, n. 12.
in note 7:
Emile Zola’s novel La joie de vivre (1884) focuses on the tragic life of Pauline Quenu. ‘A chroni...
585 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 16 March 1888.
in translation:
... begun to study medicine, he knows the works of Zola, De Goncourt and Guy de Maupassant, and he has e...
590 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 30 March 1888.
in translation:
...aricature. Since, as you’ll see when you read Zola and Guy de Maupassant, people definitely want �...
604 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 May 1888.
in translation:
...cess to run the French down? I’ve just read Zola’s Au bonheur des dames again and I find it mor...
in note 9:
See for Zola’s Au bonheur des dames: letter 464, n. 2.
in note 8:
...ce des ténèbres was wrongly regarded as a Russian La terre, Zola’s novel about a peasant family.
624 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 12 or Wednesday, 13 June 1888.
in translation:
...belonging absolutely to the region itself, like Zola, and therefore knows it so intimately, you have ...
in note 9:
Zola also came from Aix-en-Provence, where he had been at school with Cézanne.
625 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 15 and Saturday, 16 June 1888.
in translation:
... that he’s changed his mind on the subject of Zola. I know from experience that he couldn’t bear ...
... what Vermeer of Delft is beside Rembrandt among painters, he is among French novelists beside Zola.
627 To John Peter Russell. Arles, on or about Sunday, 17 June 1888.
in translation:
...lour. The actual inhabitants of this country often remind me of the figures we see in Zola’s work.
638 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 July 1888.
in note 20:
...les’ in Daudet’s Lettres de mon moulin and to Zola’s La joie de vivre (see Sund 1992, p. 187).
in translation:
...had been bigger it would have made you think of Zola’s Paradou, tall reeds, grape vines, ivy, fig t...
in note 2:
... Gogh’s description and that of the garden in Zola’s La faute de l’abbé Mouret: Sund 1992, p. ...
643 To Emile Bernard. Arles, between Tuesday, 17 and Friday, 20 July 1888.
in note 4:
See for this reference to Zola’s Mes haines: letter 361, n. 9.
650 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
in note 22:
Probably an ironic reference to Zola’s La terre (1887). See also letter 657, n. 18.
in translation:
... be a treasure to them, but the natives are — Zola’s small peasants, innocent and gentle beings, ...
651 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Monday, 30 July 1888.
in translation:
...n many Frenchmen themselves, felt Delacroix and Zola, for whom my sincere and frank admiration is bou...
Zola and Balzac, as painters of a society, of reality as a whole, arouse rare artistic emotions in th...
...aels and even the Greeks. It’s beautiful like Zola, and healthier and more cheerful, but just as al...
657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
in translation:
You can’t help feeling Zola and Voltaire everywhere. It’s so full of life! In the style of Jan St...
in note 18:
...aux’ relates to the violent peasant couple in Zola’s La terre (1887). Buteau and his wife Lise ar...
660 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 13 August 1888.
in translation:
What touches me most deeply in Zola’s L’oeuvre is that character Bongrand-Jundt.
in note 14:
...grand-Jundt because he erroneously assumed that Zola modelled the character of Bongrand on the painte...
662 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 15 August 1888.
in translation:
...but didn’t the Flauberts and Balzacs make the Zolas and Maupassants? So here’s to — not us — ...
in note 5:
...ubert as his teacher; see letter 625, n. 8. For Zola as Balzac’s successor, see letter 250, n. 10.
663 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 18 August 1888.
in note 9:
See letters 657, n. 18, and 502, n. 18, respectively for Zola’s novels La terre and Germinal.
669 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 26 August 1888.
in note 11:
See letter 464, n. 2 ff. for Zola’s Au bonheur des dames.
676 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 8 September 1888.
in note 14:
Cf. Zola’s description of a good work of art: ‘A work of art is a corner of creation seen through...
677 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 September 1888.
in note 13:
...es: Tolstoy’s La puissance des ténèbres and Zola’s L’assommoir; there are also images in this...
678 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888.
in translation:
...mend that you read everything that he’s done. Zola — Maupassant, De Goncourt, one has to have rea...
682 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in translation:
...se, but failing that, it’s pure Daumier, pure Zola. Now that’s quite enough to find ideas in, isn...
687 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
in translation:
...for me, I beseech you, I would be behaving like Zola’s good painter in L’oeuvre. And certainly Ma...
But let’s not criticize Zola’s book. I’ll send you five drawings by Bernard, of the same kind a...
in note 13:
See letter 552, n. 11, for Zola’s L’oeuvre. There are three scenes in the novel where the pain...
691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888.
in translation:
...are houses with no charm at all, I reflect that Zola did a certain boulevard at the beginning of L’...
in note 7:
... where the hôtel de la Villette was located in Zola’s L’assommoir. See Zola 1960-1967, vol. 2, p...
716 Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin to Emile Bernard. Arles, Thursday, 1 or Friday, 2 November 1888.
in translation:
... past few days, and in the meantime I’ve read Zola’s Le rêve, so I’ve hardly had time to write...
in note 1:
Le rêve (The dream) (1888), Emile Zola’s most recent novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, w...
720 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 12 November 1888.
in note 3:
...superb it is! ... I’ll certainly read more by Zola, but not for the time being. I still have a cupb...
744 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 30 January 1889.
in note 6:
...ngly compares in letter 657 with the Buteaux in Zola’s La terre. A short while later they signed th...
777 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, between about Friday, 31 May and about Thursday, 6 June 1889.
in translation:
... subject? What I read last in this category was Zola’s Le rêve, I found the figure of the woman, t...
in note 11:
For Zola’s Le rêve, see letter 716, n. 1. Van Gogh refers to several descriptive passages in the n...
782 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 18 June 1889.
in translation:
Perhaps, while reading Zola, we are moved by the sound of the pure French of Renan, for example.
784 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
in translation:
As later the books of Zola will remain beautiful precisely because they have life.
786 Jo van Gogh-Bonger to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 5 July 1889.
in translation:
... – as for me I understand it much better than Zola. But when I think that it’s almost 300 years s...
804 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 19 September 1889.
in translation:
...d have an unbounded admiration for De Goncourt, Zola, Flaubert, Maupassant, Huysmans. But as regards ...
in note 13:
This idea is based on Zola’s Mon Salon; see letter 515, n. 11.
805 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 20 September 1889.
in translation:
...ideas I have, I being such an ardent admirer of Zola, of De Goncourt and of artistic things which I f...
831 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 23 December 1889.
in note 1:
...dness feature in many French novels, by Balzac, Zola and De Goncourt, among others. See Max Milner, �...

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2 essay items found

About this edition / Note on the translation
in about_4:
...D, Theo – you hear!’ Van Gogh borrowed the expression from Zola’s novel Au bonheur des dames.
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
in letter_writer_2:
... wrote in July 1885, citing the authority of Emile Zola, that when looking at a work of art he always...
...ature of his day: the naturalistic novels of Emile Zola, of whom he became a fervent admirer and cham...
...nd saw himself or his brother in the actions of Zola’s fictional Octave Mouret. One typical example...

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2 other items found

Documentation
in documentation:
... to fall into that trap. As to Zola’s books in general, I fin...
... presume he finished them all. He was reading Zola then, and studied a very si...
Chronology
in 1888:
End of October #Reads Zola’s Le rêve (716).
in 1887:
... authors and books that he considers important: Zola (La joie de vivre, L’assommoir), Flaubert, Mau...
in 1885:
End of May #Reads Zola’s Germinal (505).
in 1884:
Early October #Reads Zola’s Au bonheur des dames (464).
in 1882:
Summer #Reads Zola’s Une page d’amour, quickly followed by Le ventre de Paris, Nana, La cur�...
...ois en exil and Le Nabab, Hugo’s Quatre-vingt-treize and Zola’s Pot-bouille (265, 274, 286, 292)

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95 letters, 2 essay items and 2 other items found

95 letters found

2 essay items found

2 other items found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters