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Thérèse Raquin at French Wikisource. Thérèse Raquin [teʁɛz ʁakɛ̃] is an 1868 novel by French writer Émile Zola, first published in serial form in the literary magazine L'Artiste in 1867. It was Zola's third novel, though the first to earn wide fame. The novel's adultery and murder were considered scandalous and famously described as ...
- Émile Zola
- Thérèse Raquin
- 1867
- Edward Vizetelly, Robin Buss
Thérèse Raquin Summary. Thérèse has lived with her aunt, Madame Raquin, and cousin, Camille, since she was two years old. Her father took her to Madame Raquin shortly after her mother died. Thérèse thus grew up alongside Camille outside of Paris, where Madame Raquin owned a haberdashery. Because Camille was always sick, Madame Raquin ...
Thérèse Raquin, novel by Émile Zola, first published serially as Un Mariage d’amour in 1867 and published in book form with the present title in the same year. Believing that an author must simply establish his characters in their particular environment and then observe and record their actions as
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32,887 ratings2,724 reviews. One of Zola's most famous realist novels, Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Parisian society. Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this powerful novel tells ...
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Key Facts about Thérèse Raquin. When Published: The novel was published in 1868, though it appeared in a serialized form in the magazine L’Artiste in 1867. Climax: At their wits’ end after killing Camille, Laurent and Thérèse separately decide to murder each other in the hopes of leading a more peaceful life.
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Jan 5, 2003 · Well, “Thérèse Raquin” having appeared as “A Love Story” in the “Artiste,” was then published as a book, in 1867, by that same Lacroix as had issued Zola’s preceding efforts in novel writing. I was living in Paris at the time, and I well recall the yell of disapprobation with which the volume was received by the reviewers.
Thérèse Raquin is a tale of lust, murder, and suicide set amid the poverty of mid-nineteenth century Left Bank Paris. It involves a classically limited cast of characters such as that used by ...
