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The Kill: La Curee - Zola, Émile, and Nelson, Brian
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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 ...

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The Kill: La Curee 2008, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780199536924

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