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La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, 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.
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?mile Zola was a French writer who is recognized as an exemplar of literary naturalism and for his contributions to the development of theatrical naturalism. Zola s best-known literary works include the twenty-volume Les Rougon-Macquart, an epic work that examined the influences of violence, alcohol and prostitution on French society through the experiences of two families, the Rougons and the Macquarts. Other remarkable works by Zola include Contes ? Ninon, Les Myst?res de Marseille, and Th?r?se Raquin.
In addition to his literary contributions, Zola played a key role in the Dreyfus Affair of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. His newspaper article J Accuse accused the highest levels of the French military and government of obstruction of justice and anti-semitism, for which he was convicted of libel in 1898. After a brief period of exile in England, Zola returned to France where he died in 1902. ?mile Zola is buried in the Panth?on alongside other esteemed literary figures Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas.
Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, 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.
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- PublisherPocket
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 2266199811
- ISBN 13 9782266199810
- BindingPocket Book
- Number of pages544
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: NEUF. Le sang exécrable des Bougon-Macquart court dans les veines de Jacques Lantier, fils de Gervaise et héritier d'une lignée maudite.Lantier a assisté au meurtre d'un notable par le chef de gare du Havre. Pour se protéger, la femme de ce dernier, Séverine, le séduit et devient sa maîtresse. Auprès d'elle, et dans les vapeurs de sa chère Lison, sa locomotive, Jacques pense pouvoir conjurer ses pulsions meurtrières, résister à " la hèle enragée qu'il sent en lui " à la seule vue de la nudité d'une femme. Un voyage tragique commence, où la démence, la jalousie et le crime sont portés à l'incandescence dans le plus russe des romans français. - Nombre de page(s) : 507 - Poids : 274g - Genre : Littérature Romans Poche CLASSIQUES POCKET. Seller Inventory # N9782266199810
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