Resumo de Therese Raquin

This book is surprising of sensuality, especially while thinking that it was published in 1857. In his time one shows it to have too much made speak the bodies, it retorts that its goal is to study temperaments and not characters. The history starts in a street cut-throat lit by the three poor gas burners which throw a gleam pale on the disjoined paving stones of the Pont-Neuf passage which connects the street of the Seine to the street Mazarine. Passers by, chilly, go quickly in the medium of the roadway, fearing the shade, the stain of the dirty walls, bad meetings. Tradesmen, installed along the street, watch for the barge, behind their case badly lit by the wavering flame of the candles. There is a second hand bookseller, commercial of toys, a cardboard seller. Opposite, draws up a drapery, name of the new owner, Thérèse Raquin, whose sign shines in red letters on the door. Wools, ribbons, white bonnets, dull and faded objects pile up on an old counter, behind which, every evening, two women sat: one is rather young, with a long and serious face. It named Thérèse; the other, older, doze under the placid glance of a large tabby cat squatted on a place of the counter. A third character sat in an armchair, an unfolded newspaper and holding a little conversation. It is small, puny, the hair fair insipid and the rare beard. It is Camille Raquin, the son of the old woman and the husband of Thérèse. Their life is regulated like music paper. As of ten hours of the evening, they close the shop and all the family regains the housing of the top, small three parts which one reaches by an interior staircase. Camille married Thérèse, his orphan cousin who grew at her sides. Not love in this disparate couple, a dull life which runs out in daily gestures, indifferent. Thérèse is bored... Until the day when Camille introduces Laurent into the family circle: Laurent is tall, broad of shoulders, its lips are full and its brutal hands; its glance ignites Thérèse which, under placid paces, boils of an always restricted life. It yields very quickly to its attacks. The passion of the two lovers, animal and devastating exasperate quickly of the cumbersome presence of the husband. Thérèse wants Laurent very with it, the night, the day. Its body requires waiting becomes unbearable and the solution is specified: together, they will remove the intruder... But will be able they to then support together, consequences of their crime? The novel, in its second edition, is preceded by an important foreword in which Zola answers its detractors, having shown pornography. Zola is defended some in explain that the loves of its two heroes are the satisfaction at a need; the murder that they make is a consequence which they accept as the wolves accept the assassination of the sheep; finally, what it was obliged to call their remorse, consist of a simple organic disorder, in a rebellion of the nervous system tended to break. The heart misses perfectly. In spite of these properly clinical considerations, who make this work the first novel naturalist, Thérèse Raquin is a true tragedy, tragedy of silence and the desire, tragedy of the remorse, tragedy of the life and frozen death. The irruption of these topics in a similar medium, far from weakening the action, still makes more scouring. Thérèse Raquin, or the tragic banality.

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