16 March 2020

Promenade Littéraire #19: Émile Zola, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

#19, Émile Zola (1840-1902), La Gare. The plot of Zola's La Bête humaine (1890) is set in Le Havre station. His protagonist is railway worker Jacques Lantier, who works the Paris-Le Havre line. Jean Renoir adapted the book into a film in 1938. Sartre liked this area, and in La Nausée Roquentin leaves 'Bouville' via the train.

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