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La Bête humaine (English: The Beast Within or The Beast in Man) is an 1890 novel by Émile Zola. The story has been adapted for the cinema on several occasions. The seventeenth book in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series, it is based on the railway between Paris and Le Havre in the 19th century and is a tense, psychological thriller.
- Émile Zola
- France
- 1890
- French
La Bête humaine est un roman d' Émile Zola publié en 1890, dix-septième volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. Il est le résultat de la fusion d'un roman sur la justice et d'un roman sur le monde ferroviaire, ce qui n'était pas dans le dessein initial de l'auteur.
La Bête Humaine (English: The Human Beast and Judas Was a Woman) is a 1938 French film directed by Jean Renoir, with cinematography by Curt Courant. The picture features Jean Gabin and Simone Simon, and is loosely based on the 1890 novel La Bête humaine by Émile Zola.
- Jean Renoir, Denise Leblond
Based on the classic Émile Zola novel, Jean Renoir's La bête humaine was one of the legendary director's greatest popular successes—and earned star Jean Gabin a permanent place in the hearts of his countrymen. Part poetic realism, part film noir, the film is a hard-boiled and suspenseful journey into the tormented psyche of a workingman.
- Jacques Lantier
Résumé de La Bête Humaine d’Emile Zola. Publié en 1890, la Bête humaine est le dix-septième volume des Rougon-Macquart. Cette œuvre tardive est le fruit de l’assemblage d’un roman sur l’univers ferroviaire et d’un roman qui concerne la justice, un fait qui n’était pas du tout dans le dessein original d’Émile Zola.
The Human Beast: Directed by Jean Renoir. With Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Blanchette Brunoy. In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
In Thérèse Raquin, one of Zola’s early books (1867), he referred to the young couple as nothing other than being “la bête humaine.” A beast is a wild animal that hunts down and kills its prey. A human beast is ruthless, driven by carnal desires and cares little other than getting what they want.
