I read Zola's Therese Raquin in high school in French not once but several times - his psychological portayals are devastating and unforgetable. So glad you discovered Zola!
Hello Yvonne! Thanks a lot, I'm really happy to have been recommended Zola by some very helpful people in the comments who have heard me ranting how much I love Balzac. Many people said, "If you love Balzac you're really going to love Zola just as much." I'm trying to get the whole series before I begin reading it. Once I get into a series I get a little fanatical. Thanks for writing!
Love this one by Zola but have yet to take on the rest of his works aside from Therese Raquin. I love how he incorporates anti-censorship themes and the cost of sticking to one's artistic integrity at the risk of being misunderstood. I myself did a review of this on my channel.
Hello Andrew! Thanks for writing. I wanted to do a good job with the Zola video, as it is the first one I have read of his, and I plan to read a lot more! I'm going to go to your channel to check it out!
@@grantlovesbooks Thanks! I like your one on Therese Raquin and Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and am looking forward to seeing more of them soon.
I am sure that I will...eventually. I'm doing very poorly on my 2023 TBR list, three months gone and only 1 read. But I will get to all the Zola by and by. Thanks Jack! Hope you are well!
Thanks Timothy, I appreciate the response! I wanted to do a good job with this one. Even though it is only the first Zola I've read, I have made it a plan to read the entire series. About two years ago when I 'discovered' Balzac a lot of people told me I should also read Zola. I'm starting to think there's nothing better than 19th Century French literature.
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OK, thanks, I will have a look for it!
I read Zola's Therese Raquin in high school in French not once but several times - his psychological portayals are devastating and unforgetable. So glad you discovered Zola!
Hello Yvonne! Thanks a lot, I'm really happy to have been recommended Zola by some very helpful people in the comments who have heard me ranting how much I love Balzac.
Many people said, "If you love Balzac you're really going to love Zola just as much."
I'm trying to get the whole series before I begin reading it. Once I get into a series I get a little fanatical.
Thanks for writing!
Love this one by Zola but have yet to take on the rest of his works aside from Therese Raquin. I love how he incorporates anti-censorship themes and the cost of sticking to one's artistic integrity at the risk of being misunderstood. I myself did a review of this on my channel.
Hello Andrew! Thanks for writing. I wanted to do a good job with the Zola video, as it is the first one I have read of his, and I plan to read a lot more!
I'm going to go to your channel to check it out!
@@grantlovesbooks Thanks! I like your one on Therese Raquin and Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and am looking forward to seeing more of them soon.
Try L'Assommoir and La Bete Humaine. The Masterpiece is relentlessly tragic.
I am sure that I will...eventually. I'm doing very poorly on my 2023 TBR list, three months gone and only 1 read. But I will get to all the Zola by and by. Thanks Jack! Hope you are well!
@@grantlovesbooks yes, thanks. Going to start Trollope's The Way We Live Now soon. Cheers.
@@jackwalter5970 Please let me know how it is. I've never read any Trollope.
fantastic! An astute and compelling commentary on a great novel, one that I love by a writer that I love!
Thanks Timothy, I appreciate the response! I wanted to do a good job with this one. Even though it is only the first Zola I've read, I have made it a plan to read the entire series.
About two years ago when I 'discovered' Balzac a lot of people told me I should also read Zola. I'm starting to think there's nothing better than 19th Century French literature.
You will adore The Rougon series.
I'm sure I will. Once I cross the first hurdle of finding them all, I'm quite keen to get started.