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May 22, 2024 · The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. At the center of the story stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband soon squanders her earnings in the Assommoir, a local drinking spot, and gradually the pair sink into poverty and squalor..
May 12, 2024 · L'Assommoir by Emile Zola was first published in 1876. It's the seventh book in his Rougon Macquart series. My copy of the book is a Penguin Classic, published in 1985, it was translated by Leonard Tancock. I think he made a really good job of it. The story begins with the young mother Gervaise
5 days ago · Lang: - fre, Pages:- 582, Print on Demand. Reprinted in 1978 with the help of original edition published long back 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z. This book is Paperback edition printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents.
May 9, 2024 · Emilia, condesa de Pardo Bazán (born September 16, 1852, La Coruña, Spain—died May 12, 1921, Madrid) was a Spanish author of novels, short stories, and literary criticism. Pardo Bazán attained early eminence with her polemical essay “ La cuestión palpitante” (1883; “The Critical Issue”). It discussed Émile Zola and naturalism ...
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May 29, 2024 · Wilson is not the first to examine covert political references in Le Ventre de Paris (1873)and L’Assommoir (1877). However, it is Wilson’s skill to provide an original and insightful analysis by means of examining the ‘relationship between the text, the city’s topography and the Commune as a function of collective memory’ (p. 133).
May 18, 2024 · With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant seventeen francs a week, she will be trained to enter the famous ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work as an extra in a stage adaptation of Émile Zola’s naturalist masterpiece L’Assommoir.
