Anyone else read Therese Raquin?

[Jazzicatz]

What did you think of it?

oooh, a long time ago. i thought it was a bit of a chore as i recall but i can't actually remember much about it.

I have, I had to do it for French A level. It was tough work translating it and therefore not that enjoyable, particularly as we had to analyse it to death too!

Yes, the misery just gets too much!

did it for French A level

god it was a misery

that's what I remember mainly, also something about her having a big head

(or maybe that was my bad french)

brilliant adaptation at the national theatre this year, though.

No that was her husband that her and her lover killed!!

Is it still on suey?

I taught Thérèse Raquin at A-level French... nearly twenty years ago. And I have completely forgotten it

i saw it at the national recently
a friend of mine was Therese
it was very miserable (but good!)

Recent book discussed at my book group. We all thought it was excellent and would make a brilliant film. Not too long, either, which is always a help.

I enjoyed it but it is miserable as pointed out on here.

Yes. Bizarre I thought and very miserable. Have only read that and Germinal, and I might say the same about that.

I did like Zola's writing style though!

Yep- -went through a Zola phase between 13-14 (read his entire Bete Humaine series) then "did" Therese Raquin a couple of years later. Loved it. We also "did" that one about an unfufilled and dominated wife by Francois Mauriac, which informed a lot of the way I think now, and made me very determined even at 17 not to marry a Frenchman.

But Therese Raquin- loved it and found it appalling in equal measures.

Didn't really enjoy it and tbh can't remember too much about it but it was a while ago...

At A-level. I've just about recovered. Not a happy book.

I think it has finished now jazzicatz, but it may be worth checking the website

I'm another one who was forced to read it for French A-level, which never does a lot for the enjoyment of a book. I seem to remember that all the characters were complete gits though, so I didn't mind their miserable fates.

Quite nice, evocative descriptions of 19thc Paris though.