Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
My rating: 4/5 cats
and here i thought thomas hardy was cruel to his characters…this book doesn’t take long to turn into slow torture for crimes committed, and it gets darker and more dramatic until it reaches the heights of opera-vengeance. it’s very tempting as a modern reader to question the characters’ motivations (why not just leave?? really?? just…leave), but it was high time i read some zola, and i can continue my summer of “missed classics” with confidence.
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