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His thorough-going conviction in the prime necessity of realism even leads him out of his way to commend Gabriele d'Annunzio, in whom some of us can detect little but a more than Zolaesque coarseness with a total lack of Zola's genius, insight, purpose, or philosophy.
His description of the horrible is worthy of Shakspeare; and it is questionable if even the imagination of that master ever conceived anything more awful than the scene and circumstance of the infernal orgies of those witches and warlocks. What Zolaesque realism there is! In the line, 'The grey hairs yet stack to the heft, all the gruesomeness of murder is compressed into a distich.
With a quick movement he reached for his glass of liqueur brandy and drained it at a gulp. 'Monsieur, he said, 'you will not wish me to describe the scene? There is no need for me hein? to be Zolaesque. You can imagine? 'She chucked you? In moments of emotion it is the simplest language that comes to the lips. He nodded. 'And married Captain Bassett? He nodded again. 'And your uncle? I said.
The disreputable line is Zolaesque bestiality, and forced, unreal, unlovely, and hysterical sensationalism. It cannot be more than a paradox to pretend that fin de siècle has anything to do with it. But it is a curious coincidence how the last decade of modern centuries seems to die down in creative fertility.
If this were one of those realistic Zolaesque stories I would describe the crick in the back that but let us hurry on. It was about six hours later he had no watch, but the numbers of aches, stitches, not to mention cramps, that he had experienced could not possibly have been condensed into a shorter period that his manly spirit snapped. Let us not judge him too harshly.
Moreover, it is impossible to believe that any really strong talent could have been stifled by the frown of the magazine editor. Walt Whitman made his mark without that potentate's assistance; and if America had produced a Zola, he would certainly have come to the front, even if his genius had been hampered with a burden of more than Zolaesque filth.
The first impression is one of extravagant and aimless expenditure, of a class irresponsible and wasteful beyond all precedent. One gets a Zolaesque picture of that aspect in Mr.
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