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pomme_verte's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
alinaborovikova's review against another edition
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
angelread's review against another edition
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
j’aurais tué n’importe qui pour laurent
leitmotiffs's review against another edition
5.0
Tan malrollero que no podía leerlo por la noche porque me daba miedo. Zola, ¿qué se te metió en la cabeza para escribir esto?
helgamharb's review against another edition
5.0
How beautifully written this was! The portrayal of the characters, their emotions, everything was superb!
“I will kill him, I will kill him.”
Thérèse Raquin is young and beautiful and unhappily married to her sick and selfish cousin Camille.
After meeting Laurent, Camille's good-for-nothing friend , she begins a passionate affair with him. But the couple want more than a clandestine affair; they want Camille out of their way.
Thérèse Raquin is a tale of adultery, murder, repentance and damnation.
At the bottom of their hearts they were afraid. They had leant, so to say, one on the other above an unfathomable depth, attracted to it by its horror. They bent over the abyss together,
clinging silently to one another, while feelings of intense giddiness enfeebled their limbs and gave them falling madness.
“I will kill him, I will kill him.”
Thérèse Raquin is young and beautiful and unhappily married to her sick and selfish cousin Camille.
After meeting Laurent, Camille's good-for-nothing friend , she begins a passionate affair with him. But the couple want more than a clandestine affair; they want Camille out of their way.
Thérèse Raquin is a tale of adultery, murder, repentance and damnation.
At the bottom of their hearts they were afraid. They had leant, so to say, one on the other above an unfathomable depth, attracted to it by its horror. They bent over the abyss together,
clinging silently to one another, while feelings of intense giddiness enfeebled their limbs and gave them falling madness.
anakuyenhn's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
inoirita's review against another edition
4.0
Zola's first claim to fame is an exploration of marriage of convenience but not quite in the rom-com way. His protagonist, Thérèse Raquin is locked away in a marriage with her first cousin according to the will of her aunt. She had grown up with her cousin Camille and had observed the ways in which her aunt, Madame Raquin had spoilt her son who was not quite in the best of his health, physically and mentally. The two women constantly aided Camille in achieving all his desires and accompanies him to Paris when he sets his mind upon taking a job.
Laurent comes in the life of Raquins and becomes the perfect companion for the husband, the extraordinary lover of the wife and the desired son of the mother. His life was indeed perfect according to his whimsical nature and while Camille was terribly happy to have found such a companion like Laurent, Thérèse finally experienced the torrid passion that she has been yearning for so long. Laurent had started sleeping with his friend's wife solely cause he couldn't afford prostitutes anymore, but he becomes completely infatuated with Thérèse and with the idea of having her all for himself. Their little secret affair was getting arduous to maintain day by day and hence, they come up with the plan of murdering Camille.
But is it so easy for an ordinary person to take the life of someone quite ordinary as them and go on with their life, irrespective of how sorted it feels? The idea of having Camille to not bother them in their little dalliance might have been appealing, but does passion really remain when you watch your lover take a life? In some respects, Zola writes about a couple trying to find the love that is lost when a horrible incident happens to them. It is not a beautiful tale, it is quite grotesque at times but it is a tale exuding passion in all its might.
Laurent comes in the life of Raquins and becomes the perfect companion for the husband, the extraordinary lover of the wife and the desired son of the mother. His life was indeed perfect according to his whimsical nature and while Camille was terribly happy to have found such a companion like Laurent, Thérèse finally experienced the torrid passion that she has been yearning for so long. Laurent had started sleeping with his friend's wife solely cause he couldn't afford prostitutes anymore, but he becomes completely infatuated with Thérèse and with the idea of having her all for himself. Their little secret affair was getting arduous to maintain day by day and hence, they come up with the plan of murdering Camille.
But is it so easy for an ordinary person to take the life of someone quite ordinary as them and go on with their life, irrespective of how sorted it feels? The idea of having Camille to not bother them in their little dalliance might have been appealing, but does passion really remain when you watch your lover take a life? In some respects, Zola writes about a couple trying to find the love that is lost when a horrible incident happens to them. It is not a beautiful tale, it is quite grotesque at times but it is a tale exuding passion in all its might.