The Kill

ISBN-13: 9780199536924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str.

Emile Zola

Opis

The Kill (La Curee) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris - the capital of modernity - as the centre of Zola's narrative world. Conceived as a representation of the uncontrollable 'appetites' unleashed by the Second Empire (1852-70) and the transformation of the city by Baron Haussmann, the novel combines into a single, powerful vision the twin themes of lust for money and lust for pleasure. The all-pervading promiscuity of the new Paris is reflected in the dissolute and frenetic lives of an unscrupulous property speculator, Saccard, his neurotic wife Renee, and her dandified lover, Saccard's son Maxime.
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Recenzje

Nelson's translation is preceded by a highly useful and scrupulously researched introduction [with] a depth of analysis rarely found in introduction of this kind... The translation itself is sensitive and elegant...the text reads as an engaging and thoughtful close rereading of the original which is especially effective in bringing Zola's fascination with descriptive detail to the attention of the anglophone reader without syntactically overburdening the prose. Hannah Thompson, Modern Languages Review vol 102, part1

O autorze

Emile Zola (1840-1902) war Dockarbeiter, Verlagsangestellter und Journalist. 1898 protestierte er gegen die Verurteilung von A. Dreyfus, mußte ins Exil nach England und kehrte nach einem Jahr amnestiert und gefeiert zurück. Sein Hauptwerk ist der 20bändige Romanzyklus 'Les Rougon-Macquart'.