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Title: La Bete Humaine (Oxford World's Classics) by Emile Zola, Roger Pearson ISBN: 0-19-283814-8 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: La Bete Humaine = Madame Bovary + Crime and Punishment
Comment: Zola at his most pessimistic, this is a book that will reaffirm your belief - if you have such - that destiny, defined by heredity and the interconnectedness of events, is inescapable. Set on the French railways during the latter part of the nineteenth century and best appreciated in the context of the Rougon-Macquart series (twenty novels in which Zola examines genetic and environmental influences on human character), La Bete Humaine (The Human Beast) is aptly titled. In summary, a magnificent work that excels in descriptive power without detail, analogous to the impressionist art movement with which its author identified. Worth reading for the train-wreck scene alone - one of great literature's most breathtaking passages.
Rating: 5
Summary: The runaway train on a one-way trip to nowhere
Comment: One of Zola's best and most famous works. There is something strangely fascinating about a murder where the killer escapes detection and punishment only to receive terminal treatment from another, totally unexpected source. When this happens twice in the same book, along with some tales of child abuse, a high-level cover-up, a sabotage attempt on a train in which virtually everyone is killed in the carnage except the persons targeted, a suicide, plus some assorted couplings outside of the marshalling yards, things get really interesting. What makes people commit such crimes? Here Zola really shows his skill in explaining his characters' motives and the dark, primeval forces that drive them. A pulsating, chilling story from beginning to end, full of unexpected twists, starting with the creation of a previously unknown member of the Macquart family as the novel's main character. Highly recommended for long train or air journeys.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Victim of Beastly Instincts
Comment: There is something very profound in "La Bete Humaine/The Beast in Man", in spite of the fact that all of its characters have a very superficial mentality. Its scenes recreate very well the atmosphere of the late days of the Second Empire. Jacques Lantier is the main character, but the novel is not at all centered around him or his urge to kill women; only as late as chapter eight he attempts to commit a violent act and it is as late as chapter eleven that he does commit a violent act. The abundance of adultery, police incompetence, two single murders (chapters one and twelve), a multiple murder (chapter ten) all committed purely out of jealousy and an uxoricide committed out of greed show the living environment and the morale of those days. Definitely, one of the major novels of the Rougon-Macquart series.
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Title: The Debacle (The Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola, Leonard W. Tancock ISBN: 0140442804 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: March, 1973 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: L'Assommoir: The Dram Shop (Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola, Robin Buss ISBN: 0140447539 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Earth by Emile Zola, Douglas Parmee ISBN: 0140443878 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1980 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Nana. by Emile Zola, George Holden ISBN: 0140442634 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1972 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Germinal by Emile Zola, Leonard W. Tancock ISBN: 0140440453 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1954 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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