La Bete Humaine (Oxford World's Classics)
by Emile Zola
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Author: Emile ZolaTranslator: Roger Pearson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: French (Original Language); French (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-11-11
ISBN: 0192838148
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Reviews of La Bete Humaine (Oxford World's Classics)
Book Review: Murder on the PARIS express meets Tell Tale Heart
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the first Zola novel I have read and I could not put it down. Though in many instances the author gives very lengthy and detailed descriptions that slow the flow of the novel, the plight of the main characters finds a way to captivate the audience and keep them reading. This book, written in the late 19th century, has all the elements that current suspense fiction is famous for. Murder, cover up, suspicion, adultry, jealousy, revenge; the list goes on and on.
Summary of La Bete Humaine (Oxford World's Classics)
Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.Literary Theory Books
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