Das Tier im Menschen

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His haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola's The Beast Within ( La Bete Humaine ) is translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Whitehouse in Penguin Classics.Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about his young wife's past. The only way he can rest is by forcing her to help him murder the man involved, but there is a witness - Jacques Lantier, a fellow railway employee.