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The narrative follows an elderly physician-researcher who has devoted his life to studying heredity while tending an extensive archive of family papers and conducting experiments. Domestic routines and careful cataloguing alternate with laboratory work and quiet scenes with a young female assistant, revealing restrained personal attachments and unspoken tensions. The prose moves between clinical observation and intimate reflection, exploring lineage, secrecy, and moral responsibility. Through episodes of classification, correspondence, and experiment, the work examines how scientific inquiry intersects with family memory and the human consequences of inherited traits, offering a meditation on the limits of empirical knowledge and the ethical weight of familial history.

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Title: Doctor Pascal

Author: Émile Zola

Translator: Mary J. Serrano

Release date: January 1, 2004 [eBook #10720]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

Credits: David Widger, Dagny and John Bickers

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DOCTOR PASCAL

By Émile Zola

Translated By Mary J. Serrano


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