by Émile Zola · Garnier Flammarion French · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080702586
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«La Bête humaine» is the naturalist novel by Émile Zola published by GF Flammarion in paperback (382 pages, in French).
Naturalist novel that links the railway world with a criminal plot: a train driver tormented by homicidal impulses, a murder aboard a train, and a signalman who poisons his wife. Zola shows the latent violence beneath the technical progress of the Second Empire.
Seventeenth instalment of Les Rougon-Macquart, originally published in 1890; this French edition includes an introduction by Robert A. Jouanny.
For readers of classic French literature and students seeking a paperback edition with critical introduction.
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse...! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
