# Émile Zola — Against the Grain character guide

> Émile Zola in Against the Grain by J.-K. Huysmans.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Zola

**First appearance:** 0004-ii

## Who they are

Naturalist writer whose realism Des Esseintes rejects in favor of artifice.

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