Zola: Thérèse Raquin

Name: Zola: Thérèse Raquin
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Emile Zola

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Series:

French Texts

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A gothic tale of murder and adultery, Thérèse Raquin was denounced as pornography on its publication in 1867. "Putrid literature" was how Louis Ulbach described the novel in a contemporary review. Zola defended himself against these attacks in his preface to the second edition, in which he outlined his aim to produce a new, "scientific" form of realism. The novel marks a crucial step in Zola's development and is a major early work of Naturalism. In his introduction to Thérèse Raquin, Brian Nelson places the novel in its cultural, intellectual and artistic contexts, and compares Zola's scientific aims with his actual practice in this work. The scientific status of Naturalist fiction remains problematic; in the final analysis it is influenced by literary models and conventions. Zola's powerful mythopoeic imagination does much to counteract the mechanistic view of humanity the novel was intended to embody. The myth of the fall is, indeed, fundamental to Zola's Naturalistic vision.

Author Biography:

Brian Nelson is a professor of French Studies at Monash University, Melbourne and editor of the Australian Journal of French Studies. His publications include Zola and the Bourgeoisie and Émile Zola: A Selective and Analytical Bibliography, and a number of modern translations of Emile Zola for the Oxford World's Classics series.

Release date NZ

January 1st, 1998

Author

Emile Zola

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Contributor

Volume editor Brian Nelson

Pages

224

Series

French Texts

Dimensions

137x216x11

ISBN-13

9781853992872

Product ID

2328849

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