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La Bete Humaine
La Bete Humaine
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Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast?
   
La Bete humaine (1890), 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.

About the author: 

Émile Zola
  

Translated with introduction and notes by Roger Pearson, University Lecturer and Fellow and Tutor in French, Queen's College, Oxford

Product details

ISBN : 9780199538669

Author: 
Emile Zola; Roger Pearson
Pages
432 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 196 mm
Pub date
Jan 2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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