One of Zola's most famous realistic novels, Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultry and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Parisian society. Zola's shocking tale dispassionately dissects the motivations of his ch
One of Zola’s most famous realistic novels, Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultry and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Parisian society. Zola’s shocking tale dispassionately dissects the motivations of his characters–mere “human beasts,” who kill in order to satisfy their lust–and stands as a key manifesto of the French Naturalist movement, of which the author was the founding father.”
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