Angeline, une première transposition fictionnelle de l’Affaire Dreyfus

Abstract

Angeline, Émile Zola's last short story, was composed during the writer's months of exile following his engagement in the Dreyfus Affair. In this article we will explain the place that this short story played in Zola's engagement and in the evolution of the auctorial status of the leader of naturalism at such a sensitive moment of his career and existence, and how in this short story, which represents the very first effort to fictionalise the drama of the Affair, Zola's intellectual engagement is integrated into literary creation for the first time.

Keywords

• Zola (Émile)
• Angéline
• short story
• Dreyfus Affair
• fantastic
• intellectual