A Haberdashery Where Nothing Happens… Or Does It?

Dear fellow readers,

Our next meeting is dedicated to Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin — a claustrophobic novel where respectable domestic life turns out to be less peaceful than it looks.
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After Madame Bovary, where romantic fantasies collide with bourgeois reality, Zola takes us into an even more suffocating world: a gloomy Parisian passage, a damp little shop, a sickly marriage, and a young woman who is calm only in appearance.
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This meeting is part of our series on Adultery in Literature, where we look at how writers from different countries and centuries use adultery as a way to explore broader themes.
The full adultery series agenda can be found here:
Just Another Book Club
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New readers are very welcome. No expertise in French literature, Naturalism, or unhealthy fictional households is required — curiosity and opinions are enough.
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Important: if you would like to attend the meeting, please also register on the Eindhoven Public Library website.
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Book: Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
Place: Eindhoven Public Library
Library registration: Just Another Book Club | vrijdag 7 augustus 2026 | Bibliotheek Regio Eindhoven