by Émile Zola · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070369485
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«La Bête humaine» is the novel by Émile Zola, published by Gallimard in paperback (512 pages, in French).
Set in France during the Second Empire, the novel follows Jacques, a man trapped by an inherited urge and by his relationship with Séverine, in a world dominated by the railway. The narrative interweaves passion, violence and desire with the advance of progress, showing the persistence of the atavistic beneath modernity.
La Bête humaine is the seventeenth novel in Émile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series, originally published in 1890.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics and French literature, as well as those who appreciate novels set in the world of the railway.
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse...! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
