L assommoir — Emile Zola

With its naturalistic description and street argot L Assommoir vividly evokes the poverty and squalor beneath the superficial glamour of Parisian life under the Second Empire But in telling the story of the rise and downfall of the laundress Gervaise Macquart Zola surmounts his moral and social intentions img src https s3 eu west 1 amazonaws com dia kitadagitim ckeditor_assets pictures 53 content_1_original_original jpg alt height 15 width 15 font size 1 color white font img