--- Julia Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Regarding Therese Raquin: - its the only novel that I
> was unable to finish because it was too horrifying.
Then you were probably wise not to finish it, Julia. The ending
is particulary morbid :-(!
Let me suggest again some of Guy De Maupassant's short stories
for truly creepy and macabre french horror from the late 19st
century. ("The Horla" being the most famous of them.)
BTW I must have read Nana 4 or 5 times myself but don't remember
seeing the word 'con' in it. In the anatomical sense of the
words it was used as early as the Marquis De Sade's work in the
1700s but though Zola was called "le pornographe" by his
ennemies, he certainly wouldn't go as far as De Sade. As an
insult, which is how the word is used today, it strikes me as a
bit anachronical however.
Of course the French were more liberal than the Victorians.
Isn't that why they call us the rudest people on earth? Oh.
Never mind then :-)
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