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15%OFFÉmile Zola - Thérèse Raquin - 9780199536856 - V9780199536856
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Thérèse Raquin

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Description for Thérèse Raquin Paperback. Translator(s): Rothwell, Andrew. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186.
Thérèse 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. Many readers were scandalized by an approach to character-drawing which seemed to undermine not only the moral values of a deeply conservative society, but also the whole code of psychological description on which the realist novel was based. Together with the important `Preface to the Second Edition' in which Zola defended ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
185g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199536856
SKU
V9780199536856
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Reviews for Thérèse Raquin
'Andrew Rothwell captures the tone of Th`rése Raquin, reproducing its meodramatic overstatements, accumulations and repetitions faithfully, yet at the same time his text is inventive and abounds in felicitous touches ... there is a thought-provoking discussion of the text's narrative structure, its symbolic and metaphorical patterns and the ways in which the author's exchanges with Manet and the Impressionists coloured ... Read more

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