by Émile Zola · Gallimard Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070370511
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«L'Assommoir» is Émile Zola's naturalist novel, published by Gallimard in paperback (576 pages, in French).
In the working-class Paris of the 19th century, Gervaise Macquart, a laundress abandoned with two children, tries to make a go of an ironing shop. Zola describes the misery, violence and alcoholism that destroy the working class.
Seventh novel in the Les Rougon-Macquart series. This edition includes a preface by Jean-Louis Bory and notes by Henri Mitterand.
French-language edition with critical apparatus, intended for students of French literature and for readers of classics seeking an annotated edition.
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.
