‘J’accuse’: Dreyfus in Our Times
Jacqueline Rose: A Lecture, 10 June 2010
“... political rage. Can passion be stronger than power? Do we want it to be? Imagine now the Palais de Justice in Paris in February 1898. Emile Zola has been charged with libelling the army in his famous letter, which we know today under the title ‘J’accuse’ (it was a stroke of genius of the editor of L’Aurore, the left-wing paper in which it ... ”