L'Assommoir eBook Émile Zola
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L'Assommoir eBook Émile Zola
In L'Assommoir, Emile Zola takes a look at the life of an ambitious woman in a time of extremely limited upward mobility, and introduces the characters--the woman and her husband, a roofer--who become the parents of a precocious and artistic daughter, Nana.While many have read Nana for its own brilliance, this is the book to read first in my opinion.
The narrative arc of this story goes from poverty and ambition to success and fulfillment, and back down again. It's also sort of a prescient warning about how fate can ruin a family if too much faith is placed in luck and not enough in preparation.
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L'Assommoir eBook Émile Zola Reviews
3 stars for this particular translation but the story itself is brilliant.
Zola paints a very depressing picture about those stuck in a relentless cycle of poverty and alcoholism.
It gives you an understanding of how the temperance movement came to be - I know I won't be drinking again... well not for a week at least.
Zola is gritty and powerful, unfortunately, this kindle edition is edited, giving the impression that Zola could also be a hack writer rushing to meet a deadline. Zola is wonderful, but buy the real thing.
This is one of my favorite books that I have read a couple of times in English. Having lost my copy of the book I downloaded this version. Not only are paragraphs missing, but the characters' spoken dialogue is stilted and awkward. Zola's talent for descriptions that make you feel like you're really there are lost in this translation.
Zola captures the hard lives in France in the 1800's. Poverty, cold, hunger, disease, and no help other than family or friends and they had their own problems. The only help to get through the day and night was the Drink. It numbed the mind and eventually made everything else worse. I had never read Zola before but he has captured life and it's challenges so well and his characters made me think how well we have it today!
This is a review of the product not the novel. If you want to really enjoy and appreciate this book don't read this free version. It is a poor translation, and an abridged one. I read this one simultaneously with a hard copy translated by Leonard Tancock, and when comparing the hard copy to the version the version has pages of text omitted. I thought the paged omitted were important as they delved deeper into the characters and provided more insight that was worthy of the author's efforts. It may be free but so are full texts from your library.
Yes, it's a soap opera enveloped in a classic, and a good one! It takes a village...in this case, a Quartier (a poor urban neighborhood) to watch young and old press against the bounds of nature and social realities. This book seven of twenty Zola wrote in the late 19th century is written in the Naturalistic style of novels of the time. You'll get a leg up on your French history.
One of the twenty novels written in the 19th Century about lives and times in Parisian life. This one concerns the physical and emotion downfall of a working class family with great descriptions of their jobs and living conditions. Anyone who wants to experience the atmosphere of life in that era would enjoy this book.
In L'Assommoir, Emile Zola takes a look at the life of an ambitious woman in a time of extremely limited upward mobility, and introduces the characters--the woman and her husband, a roofer--who become the parents of a precocious and artistic daughter, Nana.
While many have read Nana for its own brilliance, this is the book to read first in my opinion.
The narrative arc of this story goes from poverty and ambition to success and fulfillment, and back down again. It's also sort of a prescient warning about how fate can ruin a family if too much faith is placed in luck and not enough in preparation.
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