My Hatreds/Mes Haines

A translation of the first collection of journalistic articles on criticism published in volume from Emile Zola. "Mes Haines", published June 1866, contains 15 essays and a controversial, provocative preface written by Zola during his early, formative years in Paris.

In these articles can be found the seeds of all of Zola's later concepts on art, literature, criticism, aesthetics, and history, which came to be known as his "Naturalism".

The text seeks to make available to English-speaking scholars this important work of Zola and Naturalism, and provides an overview of the multiple issues confronting 19th-century France during the Second Empire.