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The Kill (Modern Library Classics)

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The Kill (Modern Library Classics)

Here is a true publishing eventâ€“the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fictionâ€™s giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for a century, Zolaâ€™s The Kill (La CurÃ©e) emerges as an unheralded classic of naturalism. Second in the authorâ€™s twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart saga, it is a riveting story of family transgression, heedless desire, and societal greed.

The incestuous affair of RenÃ©e Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, is set against the frenzied speculation of RenÃ©eâ€™s financier husband, Aristide, in a Paris becoming a modern metropolis and â€œthe capital of the nineteenth century.â€ In the end, setting and story merge in actions that leave a womanâ€™s spirit and a cityâ€™s soul ravaged beyond repair. As vividly rendered by Arthur Goldhammer, one of the worldâ€™s premier translators from the French, The Kill contains all the qualities of the school of fiction marked, as Henry James wrote, by â€œinfernal intelligence.â€

In this new incarnation, The Kill joins Nana and Germinal on the shelf of Zola classics, works by an immortal author whoâ€“explicit, pitiless, wise, and unrelentingâ€“always goes in for the kill.

Country	USA
Author	Ã‰mile Zola
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Modern Library
Creator	Arthur Goldhammer
EAN	9780812966374
Edition	1st
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0812966376
Label	Modern Library
Manufacturer	Modern Library
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	336
PublicationDate	2005-07-12
Publisher	Modern Library
ReleaseDate	2005-07-12
Studio	Modern Library

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