Thérèse and Madame Raquin set up shop in the Passage du Pont Neuf to support Camille while he searches for a job. Shortly thereafter, Camille decides that the family should move to Paris so he can pursue a career. Camille and Thérèse grow up side-by-side and Madame Raquin marries them to one another when Thérèse is 21. Because her son is "so ill", Madame Raquin dotes on Camille to the point where he is selfish and spoiled. After the death of her mother, her father brings her to live with her aunt, Madame Raquin and her valetudinarian son, Camille. Thérèse Raquin is the daughter of a French sea-captain and an Algerian mother. Though Zola's third novel, it was his first to earn wide fame and made his reputation though the novel's adultery and murder were considered scandalous and famously described as "putrid" in a review for Le Figaro. In his preface, Zola explains that his goal in this novel was to "study temperaments and not characters".Because of this detached and scientific approach, Thérèse Raquin is considered an example of naturalism. Thérèse's husband, Camille, is sickly, egocentric and when the opportunity arises, Thérèse enters into a turbulent and sordidly passionate affair with one of Camille's friends, Laurent. Thérèse Raquin tells the story of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt, who may seem to be well-intentioned but in many ways is deeply selfish. Thérèse Raquin is a novel (first published in 1867) and a play (first performed in 1873) by the French writer Émile Zola.
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