The Kill.(Book review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20070101
Author:Thompson, Hannah

The Kill. By Emile Zola. Trans., with an introduction and notes, by Brian Nelson. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. xxxix + 275 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-280464-8.

La Curee (1872), the second of Emile Zola's twenty Rougon-Macquart novels, is arguably one of Zola's finest and is certainly one of the most important nineteenth-century literary evocations of the city of Paris. Until relatively recently, however, it had been neglected by scholars and readers alike. The publication of Brian Nelson's new translation of the novel (which ...

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