La Bête Humaine

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La Bête Humaine

La Bête Humaine

Name: La Bête Humaine
ISBN: 9780192838148

Émile Zola

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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.

Kategorien:

Fiction - Classics

Jahr:

1996

Verlag:

Oxford World’s Classics

Sprache:

english

Seiten:

372

ISBN 10:

0192838148