Emile Zola's story of adultery, murder, and madness soon to be a major motion picture starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jessica Lange In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese 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 husband s earthy friend Laurent, but their animal passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them forever. "Therese "caused a scandal when it appeared in 1867 and brought its...
Emile Zola's story of adultery, murder, and madness soon to be a major motion picture starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jessica Lange In a dingy apartm...
Emile Zola was a French writer who was a very important contributor to literary naturalism. Zola's book Therese Raquin is about a young woman who is unhappily married to her cousin.
Emile Zola was a French writer who was a very important contributor to literary naturalism. Zola's book Therese Raquin is about a young woman who is u...
Therese Raquin tells the story of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt who may seem to be well-intentioned but in many ways is deeply selfish. Therese's husband, Camille, is sickly and egocentric, and when the opportunity arises, Therese enters into a turbulent and sordidly passionate affair with one of Camille's friends, Laurent.
Therese Raquin tells the story of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt who may seem to be well-intentioned but ...
Trapped in a loveless, arranged marriage to her spoiled and selfish cousin, Camille, Therese Raquin becomes restless and embarks upon a torrid affair... an affair that will result in murder, guilt, despair and tragedy... Usually considered to be Zola's first major work, Therese Raquin was an immediate success and was reprinted immediately. It gained greater notoriety and further commercial success after reviews branded it controversial and depraved. One of the great novels of the Naturism movement, Therese Raquin retains its power to affect the reader more than a century after its first...
Trapped in a loveless, arranged marriage to her spoiled and selfish cousin, Camille, Therese Raquin becomes restless and embarks upon a torrid affair....
Therese Raquin tells the story of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt who may seem to be well-intentioned but in many ways is deeply selfish. Therese's husband, Camille, is sickly and egocentric, and when the opportunity arises, Therese enters into a turbulent and sordidly passionate affair with one of Camille's friends, Laurent. In his preface, Zola explains that his goal in this novel was to "study temperaments and not characters."Because of this detached and scientific approach, Therese Raquin is considered an example of naturalism.
Therese Raquin tells the story of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt who may seem to be well-intentioned but ...
Therese Raquin is a novel (first published in 1867) and a play (first performed in 1873) by the French writer Emile Zola. The novel was originally published in serial format in the journal L'Artiste and in book format in December of the same year.
Therese Raquin is a novel (first published in 1867) and a play (first performed in 1873) by the French writer Emile Zola. The novel was originally pub...
