Therese Raquin (1867) is a novel by French author Emile Zola.
Initially serialized in L'Artiste, a popular French literary
magazine, Therese Raquin, Zola's third novel, earned the author
widespread fame and critical condemnation for its scandalous
content and unsparing vision of human sexuality and violence.
Therese Raquin effectively launched Zola's career as a leading
practitioner of literary naturalism, and has since been adapted
countless times for theater, television, and film. Therese Raquin,
the daughter of an Algerian mother and French father, is raised by
her aunt, Madame Raquin, whose overbearing nature has turned her
son Camille into a reclusive hypochondriac. Despite growing up like
a sibling to Camille, Therese is forced by her aunt to marry him at
the age of 21, thereby relinquishing her autonomy as a young,
ambitious woman. Desperate for change, she suggests they move to
Paris together, where the two women run a shop while Camille
searches for his first job. In the French capital, Camille runs
into an old friend, Laurent, who eventually falls in love with the
unsuspecting man's unhappy wife. Overwhelmed with desire, desperate
for affection, Therese not only begins in an affair with Laurent,
but considers the prospect of murdering her husband in order to
free herself. During a boat trip, the two lovers seize their
chance, but the consequences of their decision relentlessly follow
them, leaving them haunted in dreams and in life by the man they
thought they had lost. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Emile Zola's
Therese Raquin is a classic work of French literature reimagined
for modern readers.
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