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Generally, it is one of the most remarkable, brilliant writers of the 19th century. Zola could write really fun, bright and colorful. He can be compared with Victor Hugo. Here is an excerpt from a letter from Flaubert: "Yesterday I spent the whole day until midnight sitting at your "Nana" (title of the novel). I have not slept all night. I'm just stunned. If one were to mention everything that there is an extraordinary, strong, I'd have to comment on every page”. The first important novel of Zola and the most naturalistic of all is "Therese Raquin" (1867). Heroes are ordinary people with a minimum level of spiritual, intellectual activity, so they are quite natural in the novel are shown primarily as biological specimens, which are driven by instincts, resulting temperament. "I simply studied the two living body, just as the surgeons examined the corpses" (from the Preface to the novel). This is a novel-study: every action heroes, any change in their life thoroughly analyzed and explained in terms of physiology and psychology, and it's quite interesting.

The main heroine - Teresa is a woman, strong, passionate temper which a child was crushed by external circumstances, and she seemed cold, emotionless, married his cousin, a weak, sickly, and indifferent to everything Camilla. But the true temperament of Teresa woke up unexpectedly to herself when she met the right man to her strong Laurent, a friend of Camilla. They became lovers and were happy with each other (although their communication is limited only by the sexual sphere). After some time they lost the opportunity to meet and live without each other they could not. Soon they had the idea to remove the only obstacle between them, her husband. And when riding the river on his boat Laurent sank, so that nobody suspected. All felt it was just an accident. Laurent to identify the corpse of Camille made several visits to the morgue, which Zola very clearly and in detail for the first time in world literature have described. The most terrible there was the corpse of Camille, a long time spent in the water is green, bloated, and semi-decomposed.

And now, apparently, the only obstacle to the happiness of lovers has been removed, but the pleasure of love itself has disappeared, the passion vanished, they tried to artificially inflame it, nothing worked. They began to think that between them in bed constantly lays one third, the corpse of Camille. The corpse is seen in all their dark corners. They can not sleep, can not live normally, they hate each other but can not and will disperse. Their very human nature, psychology and physiology do not accept murder.

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