[Les Rougon-Macquart 10] • Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille)

[Les Rougon-Macquart 10] • Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille)
Authors
Zola, Émile & Nelson, Brian
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Tags
classics
Date
1882-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
1.12 MB
Lang
en
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Pot Luck, Zola's most acerbic satire, describes daily life in a newly constructed block of flats in late nineteenth-century Paris. In examining the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola reveals a multitude of betrayals and depicts a veritable 'melting pot' of moral and sexual degeneracy. This new translation captures the robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions.