The Kill (Les Rougon-Macquart #2)

Émile Zola

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3.83 · 18 ratings · 320 pages · Published: 1871
The Kill by Émile Zola
The Kill (La Cur�e) 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 Ren�e, and her dandified lover, Saccard's son Maxime.

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