by Emile Zola · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253005575
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«La Bête humaine» is the naturalist novel by Émile Zola, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (507 pages, in French).
Set in the railway world of Second Empire France, the novel brings together an engine driver tormented by his heredity and devoted to his locomotive, a woman who brings misfortune to men, and a judge blinded by prejudice; alcoholism, jealousy and violence throb beneath the surface of a society fascinated by progress.
La Bête humaine is the seventeenth novel in the Les Rougon-Macquart cycle, originally published in 1890. This edition, edited by Gisèle Séginger, includes an introduction, commentaries and notes.
For readers of French classics and students of nineteenth-century literature, and for those following Émile Zola's naturalist cycle.
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.
