La Bête humaine
Lithograph advertisement for La Bête humaine, 1890 | |
| Author | Émile Zola |
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| Language | French |
| Series | Les Rougon-Macquart Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire |
| Genre | Psychological thriller |
| Set in | France |
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| Publication place | France |
| Media type | Print (Serial, Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 372 (paperback) |
| Preceded by | The Masterpiece |
| Followed by | Germinal |
La Bête humaine (English: The Beast Within or The Beast in Man or The Monomaniac) is an 1890 novel by Émile Zola. It is the seventeenth book in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series. The story focuses on the lives and violent passions of railway workers who operate the line between Paris and Le Havre in the late 1860s. The novel is a tense psychological thriller and has been adapted multiple times for radio, television, and film.