The Beast Within
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His haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola's The Beast Within (La Bete Humaine) is translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Whitehouse in Penguin Classics.
Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about his…
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This 1890 novel, also called The Beast in Man, may be the most intense among the twenty novels that comprise Zola’s cycle about the fortunes and vicissitudes of the Rougon-Macquart, a fictional clan. Its complex plot is set in the railroad milieu and involves homicidal mania, seduction, adultery, murder, social hypocrisy, and a harrowing train wreck.
Zola’s novels were controversial at his time, not least because of his indictments of social, political, economic, and class issues, but now stand as magnificent achievements in literary realism. Equally powerful is Zola’s "You Are There!" manner of storytelling, which is…
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