by Émile Zola · Editions Hatier · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782218747502
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«L'Assommoir» is Émile Zola's naturalist novel, published by Editions Hatier in paperback (634 pages, in French).
The plot is set in the working-class Paris of the Second Empire and tells the tragedy of a young woman who gradually sinks into alcoholism. Zola brings the popular world into literature with a naturalist gaze, far from idealization, and portrays the harsh living conditions, poverty and struggle for survival in a hostile environment.
Seventh novel in the Les Rougon-Macquart series. 2005 edition, with complete text and dossier, in the Classiques & Cie collection.
Designed for students of French and for readers who want to approach a classic of naturalism with supporting 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.
