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L'Assommoir
Émile Zola
Naturalism
1877
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L'Assommoir
Émile Zola
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The story
The rise and ruin of Gervaise, a Paris laundress, told in the language of her own neighbourhood — the novel that brought popular speech into high literature.
About the author
Émile Zola (1840–1902) pushed naturalism to the limits of method, documenting French society as one builds a legal case.
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