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Description for Therese Raquin
Paperback. Emile Zola's own stage adaptation of his taut, psychological thriller. An intense story of adultery, murder and revenge, streaked with social satire. Translator(s): Broughton, P. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 142.
Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Emile 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. It proved a great success in this translation by Pip Broughton when it was premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse ... Read more
Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Emile 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. It proved a great success in this translation by Pip Broughton when it was premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oberon Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Weight
142g
Number of Pages
98
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780948230134
SKU
V9780948230134
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Ref
99-1
About Émile Zola
Emile Zola (1840-1902) is best known for his series of novels telling the history of the Rougon-Macquart family. Nana (1880) and Germinal (1885) are among the most powerful of the novels.
Reviews for Therese Raquin
`Broughton's fine translation confirms this as a mesmerising drama of obsessive crime and passion committed in stultifying ambience of the Paris petite bourgeoisie' Time Out
Time Out
`Zola's steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution'
City Limits
City Limits
Time Out
`Zola's steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution'
City Limits
City Limits