Naked Souls (novel)

In this novel, Emile Zola reveals the truth about the human soul, with all its contradictions, good and evil, whims, desires, love, and hatred. Through the characters of his novel, he was able to embody human truths as they are without embellishment or politeness, and explain human nature naked and exposed. He achieved honesty without... Hidden convictions.Human nature is the seed on which all of Zola''s novelistic creativity was based, and through it he was able to confront French society and reveal its truths. It is also this seed that made him the founder of the natural doctrine in art. He affirmed in 1880 that "the novelist should not remain... He is merely an observer who is satisfied with recording phenomena, but rather he is an "experimenter" who subjects his personalities and their whims to a series of tests and treats emotional and social facts as a chemist treats matter.Although naturalism is related to realism in terms of its emphasis on depicting apparent reality, it is more than just a literary technique. Rather, it goes beyond that to the philosophy of determinism.