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The kill = : (La curée) /
"The Kill (La Curee) 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' unlea...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Francés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "The Kill (La Curee) 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 Renee, and her dandified lover, Saccard's son Maxime."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxix, 275 pages) : map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxii-xxxv). |
| ISBN: | 0191516953 9780191516955 9786611346560 6611346562 |