num_pages: 211
description: Thérèse Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Many readers were scandalized by Zola's approach to character-drawing, which seemed to undermine not only the moral values of a deeply conservative society but also the whole code of psychological description on which the realist novel was based.Together with the important 'Preface to the Second Edition' in which Zola defended himself against charges of immorality, Thérèse Raquin stands as a key early manifesto of the French Naturalist movement, of which Zola was the founding father. Even today, this novel has lost none of its power to shock.
language: English
title: Thérèse Raquin
titlecomplete: Thérèse Raquin
genres: Fiction, France, French Literature, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 30859
places: Paris
awards: awardedAt: 1483257600000
name: Premios Fervenzas Literarias
category: Traducción 
publisher: Oxford University Press