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Title	:	L'Assommoir (Les Rougon-Macquart #7)
Author	:	Émile Zola
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2001 by Penguin Books Ltd (first published 1876)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. 19th Century. Novels

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The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. At the center of the story stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband soon squanders her earnings in the Assommoir, a local drinking spot, and gradually the pair sink into poverty and squalor. L'Assommoir was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative critics, and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. This new translation captures not only the brutality but the pathos of its characters' lives.

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Original Title:	L'Assommoir
ISBN:	0140447539 (ISBN13: 9780140447538)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Les Rougon-Macquart #7, Les Rougon-Macquart
Series:	#13
Characters:	Étienne Lantier, Gervaise Macquart, Nana Coupeau, Claude Lantier, Auguste Lantier, Coupeau, Goujet, Virginie Poisson
Setting:	Paris(France) France

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I loved Germinal for its honest honest sadness that the book brings to you on a bunch of paper. This was almost equally as devastating especially in the last third when everything starts to fall apart but the difference between this and Germinal was that that had a steady pace and this one just plodded along and stretched out for ages in the middle. The last third it really picked up. The book is essentially about a lady called Gervaise (nothing to do with Ricky) and her relationship with her

This is a novel about a working class family in Paris and especially a young woman called Gervaise who is left by her husband. It's an incredibly detailed novel, too much so for my liking. Every room receives a full inventory of its visuals, every character's physiognomy is elaborated, every task a character performs is described in all its minute detail. The other problem I had was all the characters became more and more unlikeable and it began to be hard to feel sympathy. Zola writes

L'Assommoir is well known for its portrayal of alcoholism. The 20th century prohibition movement took this novel up in a big way, as a morality play for the effects of alcohol abuse. Certainly if you read the final chapters, you will find yourself in Dante's first ring, with figures bouncing madly in padded cells, starving prostitutes limping down deserted streets, corpses rotting under the stairs. But the alcoholism in the novel serves merely as an enabler and multiplier for the miseries of the

Arrogant 21st century reader, take hold of this book, more than a hundred years old, and suffer a humiliation like I did. Sure, you have read all types, and there isn't a book of note that isn't in your library or kindle. You feel nothing can surprise you anymore. Plots are all predictably the same. A character is introduced and you know, more or less, what the author will do to him after a hundred or so pages. A character who is innately good, and who suffers a lot, will triumph in the end. Or

I am now officially a Zola fan.I finished my first Emile Zola book while I was in Paris, and it went straight to my list of Favorite Books Ever and Must-Reads. L'Assommoir is the story of a poor washerwoman, Gervaise, and her decline into deeper and deeper poverty and decadence and despair. It's a brilliant portrait of a woman's life during the mid-to-late 1800's.

Zola has a gift for infusing stark reality into his novels (a knack his critics and contempararies, at the time, were none to keen nor fond of) but, this novel cemented his reputatio as a prolific author. Nothing prepared me in reading this novel of the story of Gervaise, a Parisian washer woman living in abject poverty who, left with two kids and no money by a philandering beau, slowly pulls herself from her dire consequences and establishes her own successful laundry business, only to have it

A slow rise and steep fall into alcoholism and povertyIn a sense, Emile Zola extended the ambitious sweep of Honore de Balzacs Human Comedy, which attempted to depict almost every strata of French society throughout the first few decades of the nineteenth century. Zola also examined various strata of society, but by focusing mostly on the members of one extended family, the Rougon-Macquarts, he was able to analyze hereditary as well as environmental influences on the people of France from 1850