Dream Le Reve by Translated by Michael Glencross Emile Zola

A far cry from the seething teeming world evoked in Zolas bestknown novels it may at first seem a strange interlude between La Terre and La Bete Humaine in the twentyvolume sequence known as the RougonMacquart cycle. However belying its appearance as a simple fairytale the work reveals many of Zolas characteristic themes the conflict between heredity and environment between spirituality and sensuality between the powerful and the powerless. The dream of Angelique the central character is at o