Rougon-Macquart: ABBE Mouret's Transgression (Paperback)

from Smiler69

When we meet Serge Mouret at the beginning of the novel, he has just recently been ordained as a priest after spending many years, from adolescence until now at the age of twenty-five, on his religious studies. So enraptured is he with his religion and the many rites that his Catholic faith deman...

from Upthealbion

Zola's novel of passion tasted and repressed. Although some of the writing is sublime there are also times when it gets a little tedious.

from cindywho

This was a great one for vocabulary in flowers and trees. Serge comes from La Conquête de Plassans to a small village as abbe Mouret where his obsession with the virgin Marie is contrasted to to misogyny of the church. An amnesiac trip to Eden pulls him away - but it didn't seem to me that he was...

from arubabookwoman

The fifth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series features Serge Mouret, son of Francois and Marthe Mouret who were featured in the previous novel. He has become a priest, and is serving his first congregation in a poor village. When he becomes very ill, his uncle, a doctor, takes him to recuperate w...

from Dreesie

My least favorite of the Rougon-Macquart series so far (including of the later ones I have already read). Too much romance. Too much religion. Too much of a cliché. Summary: young priest loves his job and parish, mostly. Gets very sick, bad fever. Is sent to to convalesce and recover nearby, at t...