"Captain Alfred Dreyfus, French Jewish army officer, spent twelve years in solitary confinement for a crime he did not commit. Amidst the dramatic and shifting revelations of what would come to be known as the Dreyfus Affair, authors, Emile Zola, Maurice Barrès, Bernard Lazare, and Marcel Proust offered fictive articulations of response to questions posed by this abuse"--Provided by publisher.