Emile Zola, with his fiery stance against the state conspiracy set up to convict an innocent man, the Jewish captain Alfred Dreyfus, defined once and for all the model of the true public intellectual. He is the one who, without being asked, raises his voice against the power that commits crimes - and the one who is indifferent to the cruel price he will pay. He is the one who comes forward to oppose injustice and confront the majority - the one who does not bow to threats, who does not stop until he reaches the end. He is the moral conscience of a society.
Fearless and alone, full of light and full of life, more than 120 years after his death, he remains relevant, showing us the always difficult but always beautiful path.
In addition to "I Accuse...!", the book includes Zola's defense before the court, when he was accused of slandering the Staff on the occasion of the publication of his eponymous article, the eulogy delivered by Anatole France at Zola's funeral, Jean Jaurès' eulogy for Zola in Parliament during the debate on the transfer of the writer's body to the Pantheon, a chronology of the Dreyfus Affair, an introduction by Mary Kairidis and a prologue by Thanasis Triaridis.