by Émile Zola · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140441208
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«Thérèse Raquin» is Émile Zola's naturalist novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Thérèse Raquin is a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage with her sickly cousin Camille. Her monotonous life in a Paris apartment is shattered when she begins a turbulent affair with Laurent, a friend of her husband. The passion that binds them drives them to commit a crime, and the consequences of that act pursue them relentlessly. The novel, considered a manifesto of naturalism, explores adultery, guilt and vengeance with a cold, scientific eye on human temperaments.
Pioneering novel of the French naturalist movement, originally published in 1867. This Penguin Classics edition includes a translation and introduction by Leonard Tancock.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics and French literature seeking a dark story of suspense, adultery and guilt. Suitable for those interested in the origins of literary naturalism.
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.
