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Emile Zola: L'Assommoir

Emile Zola: L'Assommoir

Baguley, David
Stern, J. P.

Paperback

Series: Landmarks of World Literature

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0521386020
ISBN13: 9780521386029
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 3 2007
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This is a new introduction to Zola's masterpiece, published amid controversy in 1876-7. L'Assommoir is analyzed 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 themes, its literary structures and its technical innovativeness. He provides a synthesis of the best research and criticism of the novel together with new insights into its interpretations. The biographical and historical context is given, and there is a guide to further reading.

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