Human Becoming an Animal

Back Cover Text (From the Promotional Bulletin)

Émile Zola (1840-1902): Zola, one of the most important representatives of the naturalism movement, argued that the novelist should not be satisfied with recording the events like a spectator, but should also handle emotional and social events like a chemist, while subjecting people and their passions to a series of experiments. Zola examined the ruins of the old world in which he lived and tried to determine the facts of a future world. With this intention, he produced many great works, especially the Rougon-Macquarts series, which consists of twenty novels that he wrote in twenty-two years. The seventeenth book of this series about the Second Empire Period, Man Becoming Animals, was published in 1890. The novel is a crime and love story set on the railway line between Paris and Le Havre in the 19th century; It tells about the human instinct to kill and how it can turn into an evil machine. This novel, in which Zola deciphers the gloomy, destructive and primitive desires brought by industrialization with his unique observation power, has been adapted to the cinema many times.

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

First Printing Year: 2018

Number of Pages: 420

Size: 12.5 x 20.5