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Bibliography: The Downfall by Zola, Emile
- Title
- The Downfall
- Author
- Zola, Emile
- Date
- 1892
- Genre
- fiction
- Note Source
- Journal 12/13/1894
- Note Relating to Cather
- "[Zola] crouches like Caliban upon his island, and the music of Ariel is to him only a noise which frightens and disturbs.... Of all Mr. Zola's painful novels, there are two that are less painful than the rest, Abbe Mouret's Transgression and The Downfall."