The Beast Within
14 hrs. 53 min.
“The Beast-Man” (1888) is Émile Zola’s seventeenth novel from the Rougon-Macquart series, devoted to members of one family living during the years of the Second Empire—the era of Napoleon III’s dictatorship.
This is a noir novel—a kind of hard-boiled crime story—and at the same time a book describing the French railway of the nineteenth century. The main character, Jacques Lantier, is the son of Gervaise Macquart (the heroine of the novel “L’Assommoir”) and her lover Auguste Lantier. He works as a train driver, operating a locomotive that he affectionately calls Lison. Jacques hides from everyone his mental illness: he wants to possess a woman and then kill her. Only work can distract his thoughts from the desired murder…
This is a noir novel—a kind of hard-boiled crime story—and at the same time a book describing the French railway of the nineteenth century. The main character, Jacques Lantier, is the son of Gervaise Macquart (the heroine of the novel “L’Assommoir”) and her lover Auguste Lantier. He works as a train driver, operating a locomotive that he affectionately calls Lison. Jacques hides from everyone his mental illness: he wants to possess a woman and then kill her. Only work can distract his thoughts from the desired murder…
1.
The Fortune of the Rougons
(narrated by
Alexey Dyakov)
1.
The Fortune of the Rougons
(narrated by
Konstantin Dneprovsky)
1.
The Fortune of the Rougons
(narrated by
Elena Shemet)
2.
La Curée (The Kill)
(narrated by
Inna Sytnik)
2.
La Curée (The Kill)
(narrated by
Konstantin Dneprovsky)
3.
The Belly of Paris
(narrated by
Larisa Tretyakova)
3.
The Belly of Paris
(narrated by
Konstantin Dneprovsky)
3.
The Belly of Paris
(narrated by
Pavel Lomakin)
3.
The Belly of Paris
(narrated by
Vsevolod Kuznetsov)
4.
The Conquest of Plassans
(narrated by
Konstantin Dneprovsky)
5.
The Sin of Father Mouret
(narrated by
Arkady Bukhmin)
5.
The Sin of Father Mouret
(narrated by
Alina Ray)
5.
The Sin of Abbé Mouret
(narrated by
Konstantin Dneprovsky)
6.
His Excellency Eugene Rougon
(narrated by
Valery Tolkov)
7.
L'Assommoir
(narrated by
Veronika Oboyanka)
7.
The Trap
(narrated by
Margarita Ivanova)
8.
A Love Episode
(narrated by
Oleg Martyanov)
8.
A Love Episode
(narrated by
Natalya Frolova)
9.
Nana
(narrated by
Nikolay Orlovsky)
9.
Nana
(narrated by
Natalya Pervina)
9.
Nana
(narrated by
Irina Vorobyova)
10.
Pot Luck
(narrated by
Natalya Domeretskaya)
11.
The Ladies' Paradise
(narrated by
Olga Zyuzina)
11.
The Ladies' Paradise
(narrated by
Yuliya Tarkhova)
11.
The Ladies' Paradise
(narrated by
Veronika Oboyanka)
12.
The Joy of Life
(narrated by
Yuliya Tarkhova)
12.
The Joys of Life
(narrated by
Sergey Kazakov)
13.
Germinal
(narrated by
Yury Zaborovsky)
13.
Germinal
(narrated by
Natalya Pervina)
13.
Germinal
(narrated by
Konstantin Dneprovsky)
13.
Germinal
(narrated by
Arkady Bukhmin)
14.
The Masterpiece
(narrated by
Tatyana Telegina)
14.
The Masterpiece
(narrated by
Olga Andreeva)
14.
The Masterpiece
(narrated by
Ivan Zabelin)
15.
Earth
(narrated by
Valery Tolkov)
16.
The Dream
(narrated by
Irina Efremova, Olga Evdokimova)
17.
The Beast Within
(narrated by
Arkady Bukhmin)
17.
The Beast Within
18.
Money
(narrated by
Yury Zaborovsky)
18.
Money
(narrated by
Yaroslav Lukashev)
18.
Money
(narrated by
Olga Andreeva)
18.
Money
(narrated by
Konstantin Dneprovsky)
19.
The Debacle
(narrated by
Ilya Akintyev)
20.
Doctor Pascal
(narrated by
Vladislav Pogiba)
La Bête humaine
(narrated by
Roman Popov)
The Dream
(narrated by
Olga Evdokimova)
