by Émile Zola · Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080710857
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«L'Assommoir» is the French novel by Émile Zola, published by Flammarion in paperback (544 pages, in French).
Set in working-class Paris under the Second Empire, it follows Gervaise, a laundress struggling to achieve a decent life: to work, eat, and have a place to sleep. Her efforts clash with poverty and with the still of the neighboring café, emblem of the alcohol that corrupts workers, in a chronicle of working-class decline.
Seventh novel in the Les Rougon-Macquart cycle. This edition with dossier includes an introduction, chronology, notes, bibliography, and glossary.
Recommended for readers of European classics and for students of nineteenth-century French literature.
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.
