Marta L. Wilkinson

Knocking on Heaven's Door: Faith, Ecstasy, and Crossing Over in Zola's Le Rêve ( The Dream )

Abstract: When Angélique, the protagonist of Émile Zola's Le Rêve (1888), expires at the cathedral entrance just moments after her wedding, the novel's central theme comes to fruition: spiritual fulfillment cannot be expressed in physical terms. Angélique's fiery and unstable Rou...