Emile Zola: l'Assommoir

by David Baguley

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This book offers a variety of approaches to Zola's masterpiece, published amid considerable controversy in 1876-7. L'Assommoir (the tale of a Parisian washerwoman who after a hard life turns to drink and dies in abject poverty) is analysed as a social and political novel, as a representative work of literary naturalism, and in the context of its repercussions in the history of the novel. Professor Baguley investigates its complex and sometimes ambiguous...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521386020

ISBN13:9780521386029

Release Date:May 2007

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:132 Pages

Weight:0.33 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"

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Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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