Therese Raquin by Emile Zola is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, it is also ranked 734th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, for more reviews: https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

Therese Raquin by Emile Zola is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, it is also ranked 734th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, for more reviews: https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

8 out of 10

 

Emile Zola https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-life-of-emile-zola-by-norman-reilly.html was not just an impressive author, with four books on the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, but also a formidable activist and progressive thinker, he was instrumental in overturning the horrible Dreyfuss verdict

 

The Dreyfuss Affair was a scandalous conspiracy (oh, how I hate this word, for conspiracy theories are the defining trait of MAGA and those alike, which represent the quintessential evil for yours truly) following which an innocent Jewish officer is sentenced for treason, just because he is of Judaic faith and a scape goat as such

This was an immense scandal, dividing French society, I would compare it with the attitudes of progressives, or liberals versus conservatives, at the extreme MAGA, towards foreigners, immigrants, in the present, especially in the US https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/albertine-disparue-by-marcel-proust.html

 

Marcel Proust, my favorite author, writes extensively about The Dreyfuss Affair, and now I realize, that he may have known Zola – he met with James Joyce, but the two best novelists of all time did not have much to say to each other, apparently, Joyce may have even opened a window in a carriage, potentially risking the health of Marcel Proust

 

Therese Raquin appears to be a victim, her father brings her to Madame Raquin, his sister, and then he sails to his death, the poor orpheline is under the supervision and control of her aunt, the latter is very worried for the health of her weak son, Camille, and then she wants her niece to marry this feeble man, to care for him

 

Stayin On https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/staying-on-by-paul-scott-has-won-1977.html by Paul Scott came to mind, because I have read in this compelling oeuvre about the custom of burning the widows with their late husband, there is a name for it, sati, and though Therese Raquin is not required to do that, it did feel awful

Which, evidently, was the norm in the past, marriages were arranged, indeed, I remember reading in articles about Thomas Piketty, how it would be inconceivable (a recurring joke in The Princess Bride) for the connections of many love stories to happen in real life, one example given was Jane Austen and her famous

 

Pride and Prejudice  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/12/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen-12.html could not have happened, since the female character and the male belonged to two different universes, it would be like having different planets, or stars collide, which does happen, but one in many millions of years

 

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