Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille)
Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille)

Author: Émile Zola

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks

Published: 2009-01-29

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0199538700

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Zola's most acerbic social satire, Pot Luck is set in a newly constructed block of flats in the Rue de Choiseul, Paris. Although it seems a place of prosperity and harmony, it is riddled with snobbery and hypocrisy. Systematically exposing the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola reveals a multitude of adulteries and betrayals, and depicts a veritable `melting pot' of moral and sexual degeneracy. This new translation captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language, and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions.

Pot Luck
Pot Luck

Author: Émile Zola

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780192831798

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Systematically exposing the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola reveals a multitude of adulteries and betrayals, 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.

Apartment Stories
Apartment Stories

Author: Sharon Marcus

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780520208520

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"Apartment Stories works from the brilliant premise that urban culture and domestic architecture are indeed related in a number of unpredictable and mutually enlightening ways. Marcus's readings of Balzac and Zola novels in the context of the new urban architecture are absolutely superb, and she remains subtle and unexpected at every step."--Bruce Robbins, author of Feeling Global