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Theresa Raquin

Author
Emile Zola
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours 36 minutes
ISBN
9781911065821
Published
25 July 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • passion
  • murder
  • guilt
  • paranoia
  • forbidden love
  • moral decay
  • realism
  • human psychology
  • crime
  • consequences

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Thérèse and Laurent murder her sickly husband Camille, then drown in guilt and paranoia. Zola's fierce study of passion turning into punishment under a shop's closed walls. Spoken as when desire that kills cannot stay quiet in the dark afterward.

Author

Emile Zola (1840–1902) grew up in Aix-en-Provence, failed his baccalaureat, and then mapped a France under pressure in the twenty novels of the Rougon-Macquart. L'Assommoir is drink and a Paris street; Germinal is the mine, the strike, the dark that works. He stood up for Dreyfus in J'Accuse...! and paid in exile. Naturalism was the method: heredity, milieu, a crowd that behaves like weather. The accusation is documentary.

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