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The Kill: La Curee
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Series: Oxford World's Classics
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ISBN10: 0199536929
ISBN13: 9780199536924
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 15 2008
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780199536924
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 15 2008
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
The Kill (La Curée) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris - the capital of modernity - as the centre of Zola's narrative world. Conceived as a representation of the uncontrollable 'appetites' unleashed by the Second Empire (1852-70) and the transformation of the city by Baron Haussmann, the novel combines into a single, powerful vision the twin themes of lust for money and lust for pleasure. The all-pervading promiscuity of the new Paris is reflected in the dissolute and frenetic lives of an unscrupulous property speculator, Saccard, his neurotic wife Renée, and her dandified lover, Saccard's son Maxime.
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