"His hand was still cutting dry and nervous in a vacuum. Angela had a slight chill in front of the knife living, those iron fingers hacked mercilessly unbounded cluster of dark roofs. For a moment the mists of gently rolling horizon of heights, and she imagined hearing, under the shadows that were gathering in the hollow, distant crackle, as if the hand of her husband had actually made the cuts he was talking about, bursting Paris of one end to another, breaking the beams, crushing the rubble, leaving behind her long and dreadful injuries falling walls. The smallness of this hand, relentlessly pursuing prey giant ended by worry, and while it effortlessly tore the bowels of the huge city, it seemed she was taking a strange reflection of steel in the blue twilight. "
With a few days late challenge on Zola launched by Mocha that I finally talk about this second novel in the series: I still have much trouble putting into words what I feel from reading Zola! Also, I have a special bond with The Curée because it is the first novel Zola I read, when I was in high school, and I still clearly remember the shock I felt a shock of my first literary. I actually enjoyed rereading The Curée in the edition purchased at the time (I hope that passage Capp appreciate my iridescent pink polish "flake" as said, envious, my big girl: -)):
The Curée could be subtitled "revenge of Aristide" because in fact one finds a son Macquart already present in the Rougon Fortune , but it is discovered in an entirely different angle. While in the first novel is a rather deleted and characterized by its poor choices that give him the image of a dud in the Curée we find him in Paris, changing his name (instead Saccard Macquart) and we see her amazing social climbing. Despite this tremendous change, Aristide remains deeply affected by the failings of his blood: his greed, who is sinking into the most dishonest speculation to access the status of his dreams, makes him the privilege to have equipment, enviable but perishable, feelings, emotions, everything has at hand but it is missing, not giving them any importance. In Zola, the appetite material paradoxically deprives characters of happiness yet simple and accessible.
Saccard While struggling to make money fraudulently, his second wife, Renee, he has chosen for its property ( both movable and physical!) engages in the pleasures of the flesh and appearance. It also leaves more driven by his appetites his thinking which leads it to put to bed the son of her husband, Maxim.
The Cure "is constructed as a tragedy, there are also of references to Phaedra and that is what it is, complete with a somewhat cynical eye on false pretenses. Paris is at the heart of the quarry and I found the joy of reading descriptions of the Paris we know today, being born in the writings of Zola and under the hand of Saccard. Zola still great!
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