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- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
What should we learn from The Human Beast, the naturalist novel mixing the criminal world and the railway world? Find out everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed book report.
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- A complete summary
- A presentation of the main characters such as Jacques Lantier, Séverine Roubaud and Roubaud
- An analysis of the specificities of the work: naturalism and heredity, men and machines, and a crime novel
A reference analysis to quickly understand the meaning of the work.
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ÉMILE ZOLA
FRENCH WRITER AND JOURNALIST
•Born in 1840 in Paris
•Died in 1902 in the same city
•Some of his works:
°Nana (1880), novel
°Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), novel
°Germinal (1885), novel
Émile Zola is considered one of the most important novelists of the 19th century in France. He is best known as the leader of the naturalist movement, which sought to apply the experimental scientific methods of the time to literature: after observing reality, Zola formulated a hypothesis and verified it by experimentation in his works. The novel cycle of the Rougon-Macquart, the author's main work, is an illustration of this aesthetic. This fresco of twenty books was a great success despite numerous criticisms.
Zola is also famous for the positions he takes, which often lead to condemnation. The most notorious of these is the Dreyfus affair, where his pamphlet J'accuse... ! (1898) contributed greatly to the successful outcome of the trial of Captain Dreyfus (1859-1935).
THE HUMAN BEAST
CRIMINAL CASE IN THE ROUGON-MACQUART FAMILY
•Genre: novel
•Reference edition: La Bête humaine, Paris, Gallimard, "Folio classique" collection, 2003, 512 p.
•1st edition: 1890
•Themes: naturalism, heredity, murderous impulses, crime, violence, personification
The seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, La Bête humaine was first published as a serial in the newspaper La Vie populaire before appearing in volume in March 1890.
In this work, Zola tells the story of Jacques Lantier, a railway engineer on the Paris-Le Havre line. He is marked by a morbid heredity and murderous impulses that keep him away from women. Despite his precautions, he falls for the pretty Séverine Roubaud, wife of a colleague, and begins to have an affair with her, until his evil reappears and makes him commit the irreparable.
SUMMARY
CHAPTER I
Roubaud, deputy head of the Le Havre station at the Compagnie de l'Ouest, spends the day in Paris where he has been summoned by his management. After his appointment, he waits for his wife, Séverine, who has taken advantage of the trip to do some shopping. When Séverine arrives, the couple have a quiet lunch, but the tone rises when Roubaud learns that the ring Séverine has always worn was given to her by magistrate Grandmorin, her godfather, who raised her and abused her when she was only a child. Thinking that Séverine is Grandmorin's mistress, he beats her. Mad with jealousy, he then decides to kill Grandmorin. He sets a trap for him with the help of Séverine, who is too terrified to attempt any kind of rebellion. In a letter, she asks him to take the train from the capital to her Norman estate. Once the letter is gone, the couple goes to the station to take the same train back to their home in Le Havre.
