Smiling!

Realising the inappropriate reaction to my second reading of Zola's early duel with murderous passion, I try to look concerned or appalled or just plain disgusted, like his contemporary audience.

In his preface, he complains about the critics hating the novel for all the wrong reasons. And

Usually when I review a book I try to allot the stars not by the audiobook's narration but by the author's words and content. With this book I am awarding four stars but it is partially due to Kate Winslet's fantastic narration. She is as you must know a famous actress. I strongly believe I would ne

You don't need another Coca Cola
Or the latest Francis Ford Coppola
You don't need a holiday in Angola
You need this novel by Emile Zola
It's raw like a bad case of ebola
It's atomic like gay enola
Not pretty like a gladiola
Or sweet like a tune from a old victrola
He told the truth like the Ayatollah
He was

Thérèse Raquin is another version of the age-old story of love, lust, adultery, and murder. Yet, Émile Zola's presentation of the story of this theme stands apart from the ordinary stories that have touched the same theme. The reason is that Zola's rendition exceeds the characteristics of a story an

What happens when a married woman and her lover conspire to murder her husband so they can be together?

Do they live happily ever after?

Ha! Yeah, right.

A short, easy classic with a touch of smut, a dash of murder, and a couple of repulsive characters who I almost felt sorry for in the end.

پنج ستاره را به متن فارسی کتاب می‌دهم. داستان خود کتاب در حد سه یا چهار ستاره است و به نظرم، برای خوانندة امروزی بیشتر از لحاظ تاریخ ادبیات اهمیت دارد، ولی با این ترجمة فارسی، خواندنش تبدیل می‌شود به لذت مطالعة یک اثر فاخر ادبی، که می‌شود به جای اصل روایت، یا در کنار آن، از اجزایش (زبان، شیوة توصیفا

وهكذا تتنباين عدالة الانسان وعدالة الرحمن
لا أعتقد أن أميل زولا كتب تلك العبارة الواردة في نهاية العمل، وإنما هي من إضافة المترجم، لكنها تعبر بشدة عن مغزى العمل؛ تلك العدالة الشاعرية التي تطول كل مجرم في النهاية
الرواية أكثر من رائعة، الفكرة جيدة وتسلسل الأحداث سريع وممتع فلا تشعر بالملل يتسرب إليك في

This is the kind of book you survive, an obstacle course for masochists , the only people who will truly love it, don't get me wrong a very talented writer in his first important novel shows his skill, but he has a tendency to wallow in misery, giving a reader too many painful scenes. Zola believes,

You know how it is. Your mother marries you to your sexless cousin and in silent defiance you enter a torrid affair with a peasant painter. All those hours spent humouring the dull man in your dreary shop, waiting for your next animalistic tussle with your fiery lover. Then one day, you realise the

تيريز راكان .. قصة خيانة . . . . . التقييم خمس نجوم .

من قلب الواقع يرسم زولا خطوط شخصياته، من وحي الحياة الإجتماعية العادية يخلق شخصياته الموجودة أصلا، ستعرفهم.. وإن لم تعرفهم أكيد ستكون قد سمعت بهم، وإن لم تسمع بهم فهذا مؤكد أنك عرفت أو سمعت عن نماذج قريبة منهم، هذا هو زولا والاتجاه الطبيعي الواقعي