The Beast Within
Author: Zola, Emile
ISBN: 9780140449631
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 464
Dimensions: 195mm x 142mm x 27mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
New translation by Roger Whitehouse for this tale of murder, passion, and possession
La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his 'most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within.
ISBN: 9780140449631
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 464
Dimensions: 195mm x 142mm x 27mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
New translation by Roger Whitehouse for this tale of murder, passion, and possession
La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his 'most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within.
