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L'Assommoir, published as a serial in 1876, and in book form in 1877, is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel — a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris — was a huge commercial success and helped establish Zola's fame and reputation throughout France and the world.
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L’Assommoir Auteur Émile Zola Pays France Genre Roman naturaliste Éditeur G. Charpentier Date de parution 1876 en feuilleton, 1877 en volume Chronologie Série Les Rougon-Macquart. Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire Son Excellence Eugène Rougon Une page d’amour modifier L'Assommoir est un roman d' Émile Zola publié en feuilleton dès 1876 dans Le Bien ...
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From 1877 with the publication of L'Assommoir, Émile Zola became wealthy, he was better paid than Victor Hugo, for example. He became a figurehead among the literary bourgeoisie and organized cultural dinners with Guy de Maupassant, Joris-Karl Huysmans and other writers at his luxurious villa in Medan near Paris after 1880.
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Jul 27, 2003 · When they left, l’Assommoir was packed to the door, spilling its hubbub of rough voices and its heavy smell of vitriol into the street. My-Boots could be heard railing at Pere Colombe, calling him a scoundrel and accusing him of only half filling his glass. He didn’t have to come in here. He’d never come back.
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Summary. To consider Zola's novel about a washerwoman, Gervaise Macquart, who falls on hard times, takes to drink and dies in abject poverty, a landmark of world literature may seem at first to be an extravagant claim, requiring at least some preliminary justification. Though L'Assommoir did not by any means receive universal acclaim from ...
