
L'Assommoir
Translation by Margaret Mauldon. Edited by Robert Lethbridge
Emile Zola(Author)
Oxford Paperbacks (Publisher)
Published on 1. February 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
514 pages
978-0-19-283813-1 (ISBN)
Description
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. It was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative critics, and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. At the centre of the novel stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband Coupeau squanders her earnings in the Assommoir, the local drinking shop, and gradually the pair sink into poverty and squalor. L'Assommoir is the most finely crafted of Zola's novels, and this new translation captures not only the brutality but also the pathos of its characters' lives. This book is a pwerful indictment of nineteenth-century social conditions, and the introduction examines its relation to politics and art as well as its explosive effect on the literary scene.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
1 Karte
1 map
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-283813-1 (9780192838131)
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