Reading Notes: Emile Zola, Piping Hot
October 19, 2008. Transcribed from Twitter
Zola's "Piping Hot" has his usual asst. of pathologies: misogyny, greed, rape, incest, lesbianism, frigidity, pedophilia, impotence, rage. 5:27 PM Oct 19th, 2008 from txt
Weird diningroom table rape scene between Octave and Marie. They're most concerned about a bent corner on the book that falls to the floor. 5:34 PM Oct 19th, 2008 from txt
The listless and easily-seduced Marie prefers Georges Sand to Balzac because Balzac's novels "are too much like reality." 5:37 PM Oct 19th, 2008 from txt
Respectable Apt house in "Piping Hot" a stewpot of illicit amours, perversion, and hypocrasy. As always, Zola both moralist and voyeur. 5:48 PM Oct 19th, 2008 from txt
Reading up on "Piping Hot" on the web. Seems the 1951 version I read was expurgated; so as deviant as that version read, there's worse . . . 9:03 AM Oct 22nd, 2008 from web
Sunday, October 19, 2008
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