by Émile Zola · Larousse · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782035842794
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«L'Assommoir» is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, published by Larousse in paperback (576 pages, in French).
Gervaise Macquart, a laundress in working-class 19th-century Paris, tries to build a decent life and manages to open her own laundry. Alcohol, poverty, and a husband who squanders money at the tavern drag her into a decline that Zola describes with a naturalist eye.
Edition from the Petits Classiques Larousse collection, with complete text and pedagogical support material aligned with French school curricula.
Particularly useful for high school students following the French school curriculum and for readers who prefer classics with didactic material.
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.
