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Thérèse Raquin

Thérèse Raquin

Rothwell, Andrew
Zola, Émile

Paperback

Series: Oxford World's Classics

RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $11.95

ISBN10: 0199536856
ISBN13: 9780199536856
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Oct 15 2008
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Thérèse Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes 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. Many readers were scandalized by an approach to character-drawing which seemed to undermine not only the moral values of a deeply conservative society, but also the whole code of psychological description on which the realist novel was based.

Together with the important Preface to the Second Edition' in which Zola defended himself against charges of immorality, Thérèse 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.

This new translation is based on the second edition of 1868. The Introduction situates the novel in the context of Naturalism, medicine, and the scientific ideas of Zola's day.

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