Therese Raquin - Softcover

Zola, Emile

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ISBN 10: 1907947892 ISBN 13: 9781907947896

Publisher: Solis Press, 2013

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"Then they buried me alive in this vile shop."

Th�r�se is stifled by her relationship with her aging aunt and pale, sickly, cousin-husband Camille. When Laurent, "tall and robust, with a florid complexion" arrives in the Raquin household, Th�r�se starts an affair that has irrevocable consequences for them all.

Written in 1867, �mile Zola’s third novel, Th�r�se Raquin, is set in the dank arcades of the passages of the Pont Neuf in Paris. Dealing with lust, adultery, murder and guilt, the publication of Th�r�se Raquin established Zola as a writer unafraid to deal with the darker, animalistic side of human nature. Th�r�se Raquin was a precursor to Zola’s famous Rougon-Macquart series of books, and features the naturalism for which he is particularly remembered.

This edition, which has been completely reset in fresh type, includes both the translator's and author's prefaces.

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'Therese Raquin' is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere 'human beasts' who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period-piece. 'Therese Raquin' stands as a key early manifesto of the French Naturalist movement, of which Zola was the founding father. Even today, this novel has lost none of its power to shock.

About the Author:

�mile �douard Charles Antoine Zola; 2 April 1840 29 September 1902) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'accuse.

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