Delbrel, Sophie
Zola’s Thérèse Raquin
- 2020.
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Published in 1867, Thérèse Raquin marked a turning point in the career of Émile Zola. Based on a news item that had occurred a few years earlier, the work allowed Zola to forge his way of composing novels. It also led him to clarify his vision of literature. The fact is all the more remarkable, as it concerns the future master of naturalism, that the fantastic has the beautiful part in this novel which will finally bring him notoriety.