Helga's Reviews > Thérèse Raquin

How beautifully written this was! The portrayal of the characters, their emotions, everything was superb!

“I will kill him, I will kill him.”

Thérèse Raquin is young and beautiful and unhappily married to her sick and selfish cousin Camille.
After meeting Laurent, Camille's good-for-nothing friend , she begins a passionate affair with him. But the couple want more than a clandestine affair; they want Camille out of their way.

Thérèse Raquin is a tale of adultery, murder, repentance and damnation.

At the bottom of their hearts they were afraid. They had leant, so to say, one on the other above an unfathomable depth, attracted to it by its horror. They bent over the abyss together,
clinging silently to one another, while feelings of intense giddiness enfeebled their limbs and gave them falling madness.