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Evisceration: Exposing Internal Spaces in La curée

  • Aude Campmas (author)
Chapter of: The Imagery of Interior Spaces(pp. 77–95)

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TitleEvisceration
SubtitleExposing Internal Spaces in La curée
ContributorAude Campmas (author)
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-imagery-of-interior-spaces/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightCampmas, Aude
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2019-03-29
Long abstractÉmile Zola’s novel La curée (published in 1871 and commonly translated as The Kill) denounces the commercialism of the French Second Empire through the character of Aristide Saccard, who gained significant wealth as a result of his financial speculation of Haussmann’s renovation of Paris. The novel is also a criticism of social manners, as it follows the decline of Saccard’s wife Renée, who, like a modern Phaedra, has an affair with her stepson. As Zola notes in his preface to La curée, it “resounds with gold and flesh.” However, the constant references to the destruction of Paris also extend the significance of the novel and, as Jann Matlock notes, the Commune is a haunting presence throughout.
Page rangepp. 77–95
Print length19 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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