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L'Assommoir

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L’Assommoir
study of the demoralizing effects of alcohol. [Fr. Lit.: L’Assommoir]


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L'assommoir (The Dram Shop, 1877), part of the epic 20-novel cycle Les Rougon-Macquart (The Rougon-Macquart Cycle), shocked readers with its depiction of Parisian lower-class life; the risque Nana (1880) sensationalized prostitution; and Germinal (1885) tragically portrayed a miners' strike in northern France.
Here Angoulvant could expect his audience to be aware of a long tradition of theory in France that connected alcoholism to a decrease in fertility rates and the quality of offspring, ideas that had been popularized in novels like Emile Zola's L'Assommoir.
0773459839 Obsessive-compulsive disorder in Moby-Dick, l'Assommoir, and Buddenbrooks; interpreting novels through psychological categories.
 
 
 
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