Therese Raquin (Penguin Classics)
by ?mile Zola
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Author: ?mile ZolaIntroduction: Robin Buss
Edition: Paperback
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-02-22
ISBN: 0140449442
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: This is brute human nature in fictional form.
Summary: 5 Stars
Whilst so often derided by the realists and the asthetes, Zola continues to shock the most hardened of literary purists. Therese Raquin is essentially the application of scientific laws to human nature - but isn't that exactly the point of an accurate, psychological compelling work? This novel chills you to your very bones - consider that it was written in 1867. You engage with the hate of the two protaganists, empathize - it makes you uncomfortable, then you are horrified, disgusted. This book is the archetypal naturalist novel, but in some ways, it is the very best of naturalist novels. No disgusting avenue of human psycho-sexual obsession is left unexplored for the sake of more 'Flaubertian pleasant art'. Zola simply sallies forth into the mire of adulterous love and raw passion. This is something, in my opinion, that he never acheived again with quite the same brute starkness. If you only ever read one book in translation, make it this slim volume.
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