Who can write about sex like Émile Zola these days, as in his carnal and edgy Thérèse Raquin of 1867, with everyone currently flinching in advance of ironic but ultimately censo
Thérèse Raquin was first published in magazine form in 1867, then as a full novel and has been adapted many times for film, TV, theatre and opera. When I studied French at univer
You’ll know Nana, you’ll know Germinal, but do you know this gem in Zola’s twenty-strong Rougon-Macquart novel series – the literary-scientific experiment to which he devot
