Recently I found a copy of this book in a local community lending library on one of my daily walks during isolation. It was in the original French,a little worn and dated to the late seventies. I had not read Zola before and had not heard of this novel except for a passing review on GR. urn:lcp:drinkingden0000zola:epub:89487033-6860-433a-8642-7ac1b0850c4a Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4117 Identifier drinkingden0000zola Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7nq0fw8r Invoice 1853 Isbn 014044954X

So: Gervaise is hardworking laundress whose life is blown to smithereens by rotten good-for-nothing beer-sodden bastard men. Men are responsible for taking her life and flushing it down the sad Parisian cludgie, along with a family of unfeeling guttersnipe witches who make you want to pound their faces in with soldering irons. Oh, poor Gervaise! From now on, the family slides into desperation, alcoholism and violence. The accident on the roof is mirrored later when Nana sees her drunk father fall out of his bed, lying in his vomit, while her mother is engaged in depressed love-making with her half-brothers' father, the suddenly reappeared Lantier. To understand the brutality of her later life choices, Nana's childhood must be considered: They were in place after signing a deal with the Metropolitan Railway while it was still being built, and the British Periodicals of Sept 1866 noted that the new Moorgate-street station building, while only temporary, was much improved by the presence of Spiers and Pond’s refreshment rooms. The pubs were especially popular a hundred years ago, as they somehow escaped the introduction of licensing hours during WW1 which were aimed at stopping workers from getting drunk at lunchtime and impairing the home war effort. It was featured in John Betjeman’s documentary Metro-Land. You can probably find a clip on the Internet of it somewhere.L'Assommoir brilla all’interno dei Rougon-Maquart anche se letto indipendentemente dagli altri libri del ciclo.

At Mansion House, a buffet bar was run by Spiers and Pond, which was tantalizingly close to the platforms, but not quite on them. C’est une œuvre de vérité, le premier roman sur le peuple, qui ne mente pas et qui ait l’odeur du peuple. » Gervaise's story begins with her in tears, sitting at home late at night, watching her two little boys Claude and Etienne, four and eight years old, on a shared pillow. These are the future (anti-)heroes of The Masterpiece and of Germinal. Her first husband Lantier does not come home that night. If you enjoyed The Drinking Den, you might like Zola's The Beast Within, also available in Penguin Classics. Read more Details A short note in The Times of 9th August 1949 on the rebuilding of the station noted that the “tavern” had been on the platform ever since the station was built in 1868.

And of course the big revelation is that their daughter Nana becomes a dancer in the famed, and naughty Folies show. She dumps her cruel parents for her new life entertaining men. This follows in the famous Zola book, Nana. As such, there is still one pub left, which can be reasonably considered to be “on the London Underground”, and that is at Kew Gardens, although you have to go outside the station to get into the pub, which has windows right next to the platform. Tredicesimo se si decide (come nel nostro GdL) di seguire l’ordine di lettura indicato dallo stesso Zola. En las familias, sobre todo, cuando unos triunfan y brillan, los otros rabian de envidia. Pero es necesario disimular y no dar el espectáculo": Hasta en las mejores familias ocurre esto. Envidia encubierta y falsedad. No Gervaise non è ambiziosa ma il destino ha forse scritto parole differenti per la giovane lavandaia.