'Its force of impact, its narrative muscle and its psychological clarity make it still, nearly 150 years on, one of the most shocking books in the canon' JULIAN BARNES
Emile Zola (Author)
mile Zola (1840-1902) is the author of Les Rougon-Macquart - a
cycle of 20 novels written over a period of 22 years including
Nana(1880), Germinal (1885) and The Drinking Den (1877)- which
provides a panoramic view of life under Napoleon III. He was the
leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. Zola
campaigned for justice over the Dreyfus affair - 'it is up to us
poets to nail the guilty to the eternal pillory' - and his open
letter to the President 'J'accuse' landed him a prison sentence
that he evaded only through exile in England. He is buried in the
Pantheon alongside Rousseau, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas.
Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton,
was published in 1992, and he has written nine others, two
collections of stories and six books of poetry - most recently
Voluntary. Thorpe's translation of Madame Bovary, 'stunning and
heartily recommended' (Scotsman), is available in Vintage Classics.
He lives in France with his wife and family.
Adam Thorpe (Translator)
Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton,
appeared in 1992 and he has published two books of stories and ten
further novels, most recently Missing Fay (2017), and six poetry
collections.
www.adamthorpe.net
Adam Thorpe's version deserves to become the standard English
text
*Daily Telegraph*
Anyone who thinks the British contingent brought lurid literature
effing and blinding its way to life in the 1990s should be
force-fed Emile Zola's 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin, which, in Adam
Thorpe's stark new translation, is revealed in all its queasy glory
as a shockingly effective literary mash-up of pulp fiction,
melodrama and grimly unflinching social realism
*Metro*
The translator of this new edition in English, Adam Thorpe...brings
an unusual freshness and zip to the task... This handsome Vintage
Classics edition contains some useful editorial matter, but not
Zola’s own preface to the second edition. In that sense, then, it
comes close to returning us to the baldness (and boldness) of the
original Naturalist document
*Times Literary Supplement*
[Adam Thorpe] brings an unusual freshness and zip to the task,
which goes some way towards returning us to that sense of unnerving
immediacy which the young Zola's novel would have given its readers
in 1867
*Times Literary Supplement*
This story seeps into your insides
*Kate Winslet*
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