- Translated into English, Translations into Yiddish, French fiction, Social conditions
Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bête humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Émile Zola
- First published
- 1947
- Pages
- 415
- Publisher
- Labor, Gallimard, Actes sud
- Editions
- 40
- Language
- und, English, yid, French
- ISBN
- 9782070418015
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- Translated into English
- Translations into Yiddish
- French fiction
- Social conditions
- Fiction
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Long Now Manual for Civilization
- Murder
- Social life and customs
- Contributions in the abolition of capital punishment
- Capital punishment
- Moral and ethical aspects
Emile Zola was a French journalist and novelist known for his series of 20 novels known collectively as Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93). Zola's style was called literary naturalism; his novels were attacked and even banned for their frankness and sordid detail, and caused quite a bit of controversy in their day. The same traits made him a best-selling author and a star of French literature in his day. In 1898 he then further incurred the wrath of French officials when he published the open letter "J'Accuse," in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, an Army officer who had been convicted of treason. Zola was sentenced to prison for libel, fled to England, and was granted amnesty a few months later. He die
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