Name: Therese Raquin
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Author: Emile Zola
ISBN: 9781494756420

Therese Raquin

Emile Zola

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iun 2004

""Th¿¿¿¿¿r¿¿¿¿¿se Raquin"" est un roman d'Emile Zola publi¿¿¿¿¿ en 1867. L'histoire se d¿¿¿¿¿roule ¿¿¿¿¿¿ Paris et suit la vie de Th¿¿¿¿¿r¿¿¿¿¿se Raquin, une jeune femme mari¿¿¿¿¿e ¿¿¿¿¿¿ son cousin Camille, un homme faible et maladif. Th¿¿¿¿¿r¿¿¿¿¿se m¿¿¿¿¿ne une vie monotone et ennuyeuse jusqu'¿¿¿¿¿¿ ce qu'elle rencontre Laurent, un ami de Camille. Les deux tombent amoureux et entament une liaison passionn¿¿¿¿¿e, qui les m¿¿¿¿¿nera ¿¿¿¿¿¿ commettre un meurtre. Le roman explore les th¿¿¿¿¿mes de la passion, de la culpabilit¿¿¿¿¿ et de la punition, et est consid¿¿¿¿¿r¿¿¿¿¿ comme l'un des meilleurs exemples du naturalisme litt¿¿¿¿¿raire. ""Th¿¿¿¿¿r¿¿¿¿¿se Raquin"" est un classique de la litt¿¿¿¿¿rature fran¿¿¿¿¿aise et a ¿¿¿¿¿t¿¿¿¿¿ adapt¿¿¿¿¿ pour le th¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿tre, le cin¿¿¿¿¿ma et la t¿¿¿¿¿l¿¿¿¿¿vision ¿¿¿¿¿¿ de nombreuses reprises.At last he was rid of his crime. He had killed Camille. It was a matter that was settled, and would be spoken of no more. He was now going to lead a tranquil existence, until he could take possession of Therese. The thought of the murder had at times half choked him, but now that it was accomplished, he felt a weight removed from his chest, and breathed at ease, cured of the suffering that hesitation and fear had given him.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist, journalist, critic, and one of the central figures of literary naturalism. Best known for the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle, Zola brought an ambitious social, political, and scientific seriousness to the nineteenth-century novel, examining how heredity, environment, class, labour, money, sexuality, and institutions shape human life. His fiction often focused on the forces that polite society preferred not to see: poverty, exploitation, alcoholism, prostitution, industrial danger, political corruption, and the pressure of economic power on ordinary families.Born in Paris and raised partly in Aix-en-Provence, Zola became one of the most influential and controversial writers of modern France. Novels such as Thérèse Raquin, L'Assommoir, Nana, Germinal, La Bête humaine, and La Débâcle helped define naturalist fiction through their detailed social observation, unsentimental realism, and willingness to confront the physical and moral conditions of modern life. Germinal, his great novel of coal miners and class struggle, is among his most enduring works and remains a cornerstone of French literature, labour fiction, and the European realist tradition. Zola was also a major public intellectual, famously intervening in the Dreyfus Affair with "J'Accuse...!", an act that confirmed his place not only in literary history but in the history of political conscience.

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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.