Therese Racan

Emile Zola, in his novel "Thérèse Racan", makes his characters captive to an idea that dominates them so that they do not notice what is going on around them, and they end up colliding and falling into disasters, because they walk, motivated by their whims, in parallel lines like railway tracks. This novel was published for the first time in 1867 AD in Paris, and on that day it sparked a wave of anger against him in bourgeois circles. Newspapers described it as belonging to "rotten literatu...