Zola's Psychological Portraiture

Zola has some of the most stunning moments of psychological intuition that have ever been put to the page. He writes about this sort of moral vacuity of materialism and that is like a theme that is painfully topical at the moment. I just feel when I read Zola that I'm reading somebody who could be writing about black characters in Thrapbo Alabama as well as you know white characters in Sacramento. His terrain is is the human heart yes but the human heart within a society of others and ultimately we are all in asociety of others so yeah I find his work both like incredibly specific and also really really universal or perhaps universality is a direct consequence of the total specificity of his