by Émile Zola
So if Kate Winslet retires from acting and just does audio books, I will not be disappointed at all.And Zola, you are an evil man.
Way back in the late 20th century when I was a teenager and the genre fiction 'industry,' with its absurdly blood-soaked TV tie ins hadn't been invented, I (and many others my age) slumped on the sofa with the novels of DH Lawrence - yes, really- with EM Forster, Emile Zola and of course, a bit of ...
Dragged a bit about 2/3 of the way through, but picked up again towards the end.As it was a translated version I'm not sure how close to the original it was.
Therese Raquin is Madame Bovary on steroids. The young Zola was impressed by Bovary, and its influence is clear throughout Raquin - but he ratchets every aspect of the story up, for better and...well, really for worse; this isn't as good as Bovary.Mainly that's because Zola is no match at all for Fl...
Wait, is this the same Emile Zola who wrote Germinal? Unlike that title, I found this to be repetitive, overly dramatic junk. Completely skippable. I would have tossed it, but it was the only book I had with me on a long flight with a stopover.
Read this in French many years ago. Don't remember much about it.
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