Thérèse Raquin
by Émile Zola (also rec’d by Kate Winslet )
Buy on AmazonThis is not particularly highbrow; it’s a little soap opera-ish. Thérèse has a dreary life with her husband and his mother in 19th-century Paris. She starts an affair with her husband’s coworker, and together they conspire to kill her husband. Toward the end of the story, the pair have exactly what they wanted—except now they can’t bear to be alone together. They feel as if her husband’s corpse is with them all the time. It’s just devastating, that discovery. I’ve always found Thérèse Raquin...
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"This is not particularly highbrow; it’s a little soap opera-ish. Thérèse has a dreary life with her husband and his mother in 19th-century Paris. She starts an affair with her husband’s coworker, and together they conspire to kill her husband. Toward the end of the story, the pair have exactly what they wanted—except now they can’t bear to be alone together. They feel as if her husband’s corpse is with them all the time. It’s just devastating, that discovery. I’ve always found Thérèse Raquin..."
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