The little white attic

I always wanted to read Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism —now seemed like the perfect time. Very interesting book, at least s...

1/ This is the wedding night of Laurent and Thérèse. There is a fire:  “A bright fire was blazing in the grate, casting large patches of yel...

1/ In the previous blog post , I wrote about smells in the novel and the way Thérèse and Laurent are driven by the physical, by scents.  In ...

1/ This is my first Zola.  Thérèse Raquin , like Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet , begins with a detailed description of the surroundings. Place th...