by Émile Zola · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080701985
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«L'Assommoir» is the naturalist novel by Émile Zola, published by Flammarion in paperback (448 pages, in French).
Gervaise Macquart, a laundress who arrives in Paris with her lover Lantier and her children, struggles to open her own workshop and escape poverty. Her husband Coupeau's alcoholism precipitates the family's downfall. The novel portrays working-class life under the Second Empire and is a representative work of French naturalism.
This 1993 French edition belongs to the Garnier-Flammarion collection (Texte Integral series) and has 448 pages. It is the seventh instalment of the Rougon-Macquart cycle.
For readers of French classics who prefer the original version, including literature students.
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse...! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
