L'Aurore by Émile Zola
Publicado em 13-01-2022
"J'accuse" ("I accuse") is an open letter that was published on January 13, 1898, 122 years ago, in the journal L'Aurore by Émile Zola. The letter was intended to respond to the "Dreyfus affair", an issue fraught with anti-Semitism. The letter made the newspaper's front page, causing quite a stir in France, but also abroad. Zola addressed in the letter to Félix Faure, then president of France. He accused the government he presided over of anti-Semitism and spoke out against the illegal arrest of Alfred Dreyfus, an officer of the General Staff of the French Army. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island, off French Guiana, a terrible and infamous prison immortalized in the book "Papillon" by Henri Charrière (1969) and later in the film by Franklin Schaffner (1973), with the great Steve McQueen. The charge against Dreyfus was that of espionage. Zola then pointed out judicial errors, in addition to the lack of serious and concrete evidence. Zola was eventually sued for defamation and found guilty on February 23, 1898. The writer fled to England to avoid arrest, returning to France in June 1899. But the act of courage and the indomitable tenacity of an intellectual remained. Who knew how to intervene and denounce a terrible failure of justice. The example, however, despite the persecution given to the writer, has not been repeated much, but the injustices have not ceased to exist...
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