Teresa Raquin

You don't need another Coca Cola Or the latest Francis Ford Coppola You don't need a holiday in Angola You need this novel by Emile Zola It's raw like a bad case of ebola It's atomic like gay enola Not pretty like a gladiola Or sweet like a tune from a old victrola He told the truth like the Ayatollah He was Leggi tutto

You know how it is. Your mother marries you to your sexless cousin and in silent defiance you enter a torrid affair with a peasant painter. All those hours spent humouring the dull man in your dreary shop, waiting for your next animalistic tussle with your fiery lover. Then one day, you realise the

This is the kind of book you survive, an obstacle course for masochists , the only people who will truly love it, don't get me wrong a very talented writer in his first important novel shows his skill, but he has a tendency to wallow in misery, giving a reader too many painful scenes. Zola believes, Leggi tutto

پنج ستاره را به متن فارسی کتاب می‌دهم. داستان خود کتاب در حد سه یا چهار ستاره است و به نظرم، برای خوانندة امروزی بیشتر از لحاظ تاریخ ادبیات اهمیت دارد، ولی با این ترجمة فارسی، خواندنش تبدیل می‌شود به لذت مطالعة یک اثر فاخر ادبی، که می‌شود به جای اصل روایت، یا در کنار آن، از اجزایش (زبان، شیوة توصیفا Leggi tutto

What happens when a married woman and her lover conspire to murder her husband so they can be together? Do they live happily ever after? Ha! Yeah, right. A short, easy classic with a touch of smut, a dash of murder, and a couple of repulsive characters who I almost felt sorry for in the end.

White petticoats will never be the same. Cats, too. And card games. . . Emile, mon cher, What have you done? Not since Eve has a woman caused as much trouble. Drive a man to commit a murder? That's bad. But the rest? You spill the beans on my sex. You lay us bare as we long to be. You show us in all Leggi tutto

ترزراکن داستان رابطه میان زنی به نام ترز با لوران مرد روستایی قوی هیکلی ایست که با شور و شهوت شروع شده ، با جنایت ادامه یافته و سرانجام با جنون پایان می یابد . برخلاف دیگر داستان های کلاسیک تصویری که زولا از رابطه میان زن و مرد ترسیم کرده رابطه ای شهوانی و بر مبنای میل غریزی و جنسی ایست . نگاه ریز Leggi tutto