Émile Zola

When adulteress Therese and her lover Laurent murder her sickly husband Camille, the ghost of Camille haunts them after their marriage, transforming their passion for each other into hatred.

Thérèse Raquin

Maelie Dolbec

Le soir, lorsqu'ils se trouvaient face à face, en apparence tranquilles et étrangers l'un à l'autre, des orages de passion, d'épouvante et de désir passaient sous la chair calme de leur visage.

[...] au-delà, sur la Seine, sur les coteaux, descendait la sérénité du soir, un air bleuâtre et vague qui noyait les arbres dans une vapeur transparente.

De grandes ombres tombaient des arbres [...]

La pauvre vieille commençait à balbutier des lambeaux de phrase qui se cousaient mal les uns aux autres ; sa voix faiblissait, ses membres se mouraient un à un. Elle devenait une chose.

Que se passait-il dans cette misérable créature qui vivait juste assez pour assister à la vie sans y prendre part ? Elle voyait, elle entendait, elle raisonnait sans doute d'une façon nette et claire, et elle n'avait plus le geste, elle n'avait plus la voix pour exprimer au-dehors les pensées qui naissaient en elle. Ses idées l'étouffaient peut-être.

THERESE RAQUIN; TRANS. BY ROBIN BUSS.

Varol Aksoy

yasak tutkunun bedeli olarak ozetlenebilir.. akici ve bogmayan bir dil yapisina sahip. okudugum ilk Emile Zola kitabiydi, naturalizm ile yogurulmus diger unlu kitabi Germinal'e baslayacagim yakinda..

Chiara Fabbri

Robin M Cabana

I listened to Kate Winslet's reading of this book - she was great. What a dark & twisty story about what happens to people who have to live with the terrible things they've done.

Hannah Myhre

Very good book, but very dark. Interesting plot and good descriptions

In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, ThA(c)rA]se Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husbandas earthy friend Laurent, but their animal passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them forever. "ThA(c)rA]se Raquin" caused a scandal when it appeared in 1867 and brought its twenty-seven-year-old author a notoriety that followed him throughout his life. Zolaas novel is not only an uninhibited portrayal of adultery, madness, and ghostly revenge, but also a devastating exploration of the darkest aspects of human existence.

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Alexander Lobov

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 himself against charges of immorality, Thérèse 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. This new translation is based on the second edition of 1868. The Introduction situates the novel in the context of Naturalism, medicine, and the scientific ideas of Zola's day.

Thérèse Raquin

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