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If, until now, Zola tried to make us understand the roughness of his characters, almost attracting sympathy, at least understanding, I found that there is much more perspective in this volume. This bourgeois couple will be destroyed by a situation that ultimately oppresses them, and Zola does not seek any escape or extenuating circumstances. No more than on the rest of the excellent society of Plassans, filled with highly uninteresting people and novelists. It is a novel where the story completely folds in on itself, in this circle that will gradually implode.
Another excellent step in my chronological reading of Rougon-Macquart is slightly mixed up compared to the previous volumes. So hop to the following (s)!