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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-21 08:18:56.
(Language: English)
 
Enter the mental environs of a pervasive lingering sadness, 'la tristesse'.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-07-25 04:53:10.
(Language: English)
an analytic study of temperament. good read. classic. :)an analytic study of temperament
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-17 08:37:10.
(Language: English)
proche de mm Bovary de Flaubert. comment une existence morne peut tourner au drame.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-23 08:40:41.
(Language: English)
Sparse, straight-forward and a tale of conscience by someone who doesn't believe in the spiritual. It doesn't quite work because it's impossible to sympathise with any of the characters whether they be oppressed, murdered or paralysed. Well, the cat, I feel sorry for the cat.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-12 09:39:39.
(Language: English)
the post man really does always ring twice...
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-26 05:52:32.
(Language: English)
just imagine some people are living up to this book? crazxy or what?
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-12-03 11:12:38.
(Language: French)
Livre lu pour les cours, mais vu que j'aime pas Zola, encore une lecture désagréable. Je ne suis pas du tout fan du style de cet auteur.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-03-24 05:05:01.
(Language: French)
Super livre qui vous tient en haleine jusqu'au bout.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-02 08:16:31.
(Language: English)
billliant dark and passionate set in paris.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-12-27 02:47:48.
(Language: English)
Just read this book and a fantastic portrayal of lust and betrayal. A very dark book and surprising end. Loved it.
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Caleb posted a review at 2009-02-24 01:02:00.
(Language: English)
As a realist novel I think it is very successful. This certainly must have been a shock to readers, who were accustomed to man as struggling hero and supernatural overtones. Therese and Laurent, two lovers who kill Therese's husband in order to practice their affair more openly, are horrible people. Zola does not give them a break at all; he, with every other page, launches into a long analysis of their barbaric behaviour and their eventual hateful feelings toward one another. It is this that causes the book to be quite tedious more than occasionally. Some may think otherwise, but I didn't find some of the lead character to be flat. Madame Raquin, although she doesn't say much, is probably the most powerful character in the book: paralyzed by a stroke, she speaks only with her eyes, and it is she who survives, albeit in misery.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-10-01 07:19:47.
(Language: English)
I felt a bit scandalised reading this! Near the beginning, there is an extra-marital affair, it is not described in graphic detail, not any real detail at all. It is merely hinted at and alluded to, but it is an undeniably steamy affair. I can understand the controversy it created on publication! It is bleak and depressing. I felt some sypathy for the lovers even as adulterers (and worse) but my sympathy lessened as they declined.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-02-09 07:11:17.
(Language: French)
Le problème avec certains classiques : l'horizon d'attente... Alors même si on ne peut rien retirer de sa qualité à ce roman, il faut bien avouer que ce n'était pas une grande découverte ; d'autant plus qu'il y a de ça une dizaine d'années je l'avais déjà entamé... Mais bien trop jeune. L'avantage quand on est professeur de français, c'est de revoir ses classiques... Et ce serait un vilain mensonge, d'être d'ors et déjà blasée : oui, il est toujours possible de prendre du plaisir avec ses vieux livres poussiéreux... Chaque lecture est différente et le propre d'un "bon" roman c'est de proposer de nouvelles perspectives avec les mêmes mots...
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-12 04:02:17.
(Language: English)
so good book! so disgusting! so honest!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-13 12:01:52.
(Language: English)
Hard to get into at first buitis worth persevering with!
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-10-01 03:43:37.
(Language: English)
ziemlich verstörend und abgründig... Aber absoultu großartig!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-30 04:20:22.
(Language: English)
Loved this book! Had to read for European Civilzation 19th century class. Scandalous compared to Lady Chatterly's Lover! Great story that left me wanting to know more of what was going to happen. Therese has everybody fooled on what kind of person she is and marries Camille whom I guess what sort of her brother but no blood relation. Disgusting but not. Then has an affair with Camille's friend Laurent. Camille ends up losign his life for greed and passion between both characters that wanted different things out of it. You knew what most of the characters were thinking esp both Therese and Laurents mental breakdown. Definitely would read this again!
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-08-11 09:21:24.
(Language: English)
Very rough... a difficult read!
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-26 11:50:21.
(Language: English)
Book Club #26. I despised this book. Except for the page and a half which depicted a scene from The Luncheon of the Boating Party. The most depressing, useless piece of writing I've ever read. Did I say I didn't like it?
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-11 01:57:27.
(Language: French)
Super Bouquin
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-04 04:20:29.
(Language: English)
Mon premier et seul livre d'Emile Zola pour l'instant
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-02 08:14:17.
(Language: English)
brill book set in paris about a doomed love affair between a lonely young woman and an artist.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-04-08 09:58:25.
(Language: French)
C'est pas bien d'assassiné le mari, on se sent coupable après, et le chat veille.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-03-30 06:06:59.
(Language: French)
Une histoire de trahison, magnifiquement belle :)
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-02-04 08:01:30.
(Language: English)
Zola's much better known for his painstakingly detailed, deceptively lyrical stories set in France of the Second Empire of the mid-nineteenth century, although really aimed at the France of the late nineteenth century Third Republic. THERESE RAQUIN, his earliest major work, stands out as a relatively simple story of jealousy, adultery, and murder in a small family. It's also an indication, as if one were needed, of Zola's unwillingness to compromise on the frequently grim and unpleasant endings (as so often in life) which marked many of his great later novels. The ending is a little TOO grim to the extent that it nearly crosses the line into Grand Guignol, but THERESE RAQUIN maintains its power to shock and horrify, especially with a bravura setpiece later in the novel involving a dinner party that's at once excruciating and hypnotic. While many of Zola's later works such as NANA and L'ASSOMOIR (and even "lighter" fare such as AU BONHEUR DES DAMES) are more deeply and richly populated with character and incident, THERESE RAQUIN's an admirable, if extremely depressing, and concise story that demonstrated both to Zola's world and to ours that here was a writer one ignored to one's cost.
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