Therese Raquin
Published on 1. October 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
104 pages
978-0-948230-13-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 and later revived at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon.
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Zola?s steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution * City Limits * 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 * Zola?s steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution * City Limits * 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 * Zola?s steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution * City Limits * 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 * Zola?s steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution Broughton?s fine translation confirms this as a mesmerising drama of obsessive crime and passion committed in stultifying ambience of the Paris petite bourgeoisie 'Zola's steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution' -- City Limits * City Limits * '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 *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
117 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-948230-13-4 (9780948230134)
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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.