Reading La Bête Humaine | Alexandria
Read La Bête Humaine by Emile Zola. Merging technology and primal instinct, Zola's locomotive becomes a dark mirror reflecting humanity's dueling natures - the rational and the bestial. Through a murderous railway tale, he predicted how "progress" amplifies rather than tames our savage impulses. His warning? Machines don't civilize us; they weaponize our darkest urges.