Therese Raquin / Edition 1

Therese Raquin / Edition 1

by Emile Zola
ISBN-10:
2253010073
ISBN-13:
9782253010074
Pub. Date:
01/28/1984
Publisher:
Livre De Poche
ISBN-10:
2253010073
ISBN-13:
9782253010074
Pub. Date:
01/28/1984
Publisher:
Livre De Poche
Therese Raquin / Edition 1

Therese Raquin / Edition 1

by Emile Zola
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Overview

'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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9782253010074
Publisher: Livre De Poche
Publication date: 01/28/1984
Edition description: French Edition
Pages: 311
Product dimensions: 4.30(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Language: French

About the Author

Emile Zola (1840—1902) was born in Paris and worked as a journalist before turning to fiction. With the publication of L’Assommoir, he became the most famous writer in France. His work has influenced authors from August Strindberg to Theodore Dreiser to Tom Wolfe. Zola was nominated for the first two Nobel Prizes in Literature.

Robin Buss is a writer and translator who works for the Independent on Sunday and as television critic for The Times Educational Supplement. He studied at the University of Paris, where he earned a degree and a doctorate in French literature. He is part-author of the article “French Literature” in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and has published critical studies of works by Vigny and Cocteau and three books on European cinema, The French Through Their Films (1988), Italian Films (1989), and French Film Noir (1994). He has also translated a number of volumes for Penguin Classics.

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