L'Assommoir

Emile Zola

Anonymous

The story is a realistic and unrelenting description of the fall and degradation of a French working class family living in the slums of Paris during the mid 19th century. Their fate however, is not a simple product of circumstances rather it is the consequence of their choices. This ultimately adds to the tragedy as we wish for their success but instead are forced to watch with growing apprehension as opportunities are wasted and the family spirals downward on a path to disintegration and destruction.

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Preț

Express

Paperback (10)

57^.67 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

57^.67 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

70^.15 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

101^.64 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

111^.98 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

141^.61 lei 3-5 săpt.

–

74^.57 lei 6-8 săpt.

Aegypan Press – 31 aug 2007

95^.33 lei 6-8 săpt.

Lector House – 20 mai 2019

101^.67 lei 6-8 săpt.

Echo Library – 30 apr 2006

148^.25 lei 38-44 zile

Book Jungle – 12 mar 2008

149^.88 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (1)

195^.03 lei 6-8 săpt.

Aegypan Press – 31 iul 2007

195^.03 lei 6-8 săpt.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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 powerful 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.

Notă biografică

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (1840 - 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, 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 the renowned newspaper headline J'accuse. Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.