Thérèse Raquin Resources

Composer Tobias Picker adapted Zola's novel into a two-act opera in 2001, which was described as a "thrill-ride from the start." Sweet. We like thrill rides…

If you've become a fan of Zola, why not join the Emile Zola Society? This site also offers some biographical info and other fun facts about Zola, including the detail that he had a passion for photography. You can even check out some of the photos he took.

A famous 1953 French film adaptation of Zola's Thérèse Raquin.

This 1980 BBC Mini-series is based on Zola's novel.

If you're interested in seeing a film about the author of Thérèse Raquin, check out The Life of Emile Zola. It won three Oscars, including Best Picture, and was nominated for seven other Oscars. So it's definitely a classic film in our book.

Take a visual stroll through the old Paris of Zola's Thérèse Raquin.

Check out this photo of Zola sporting a beret, taken in 1902. We think he looks quite distinguished.

Édouard Manet, a famous 19th Century French realist and impressionist artist, painted this portrait of Zola in 1868.

Zola was also good friends with another well-known French painter, Paul Cezanne. So here's yet another portrait of Zola, painted by Cezanne in 1864.

In 1870, Cezanne did a second painting of Zola called Paul Alexis Reading a Manuscript to Emile Zola. Alexis was Zola's friend and biographer. Dude had a lot of friends in artistic places, we guess.