Feeding the image of a solitary drudge concerned only with work, he painted the Latin motto “Nulla dies sine linea” (“No day without [writing] a line”) over his fireplace.Henry James, who knew the man ...

Emile Zola, with his carnal and edgy Thérèse Raquin in 1867. ... Its unlucky trio are the "human beast" Lantier, who is gripped by a hereditary madness and a desire to murder; ...