L'assommoir

Publisher Marketing: L'Assommoir est un roman d'Emile Zola publie en 1877, septieme volume de la serie Les Rougon-Macquart. C'est un ouvrage totalement consacre au monde ouvrier et, selon Zola, le premier roman sur le peuple, qui ne mente pas et qui ait l'odeur du peuple . L'ecrivain y restitue la langue et les m urs des ouvriers, tout en decrivant les ravages causes par la misere et l'alcoolisme. A sa parution, l'ouvrage suscite de vives polemiques car il est juge trop cru. Mais c'est ce realisme qui, cependant, provoque son succes, assurant alors la celebrite et la fortune de l'auteur. Contributor Bio:  Zola, Emile ?mile Zola was a French writer who is recognized as an exemplar of literary naturalism and for his contributions to the development of theatrical naturalism. Zola's best-known literary works include the twenty-volume Les Rougon-Macquart, an epic work that examined the influences of violence, alcohol and prostitution on French society through the experiences of two families, the Rougons and the Macquarts. Other remarkable works by Zola include Contes ? Ninon, Les Myst?res de Marseille, and Th?r?se Raquin. In addition to his literary contributions, Zola played a key role in the Dreyfus Affair of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. His newspaper article J'Accuse accused the highest levels of the French military and government of obstruction of justice and anti-semitism, for which he was convicted of libel in 1898. After a brief period of exile in England, Zola returned to France where he died in 1902. ?mile Zola is buried in the Panth?on alongside other esteemed literary figures Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas.