Lecture En Francais Facile: Niveau 3: L'Assommoir (Paperback)

from wbwilburn5

Love this book, a lesson on self-destruction written in the most interesting, loving way. I have lost count of how many times I have re-read this novel.

from nosajeel

I used to think that Bernard Malamud's The Fixer was the most relentlessly bleak and depressing book because it went from bad to worse to much worse over the course of the novel. But L'Assommoir (translated here as The Drinking Den) beats it because it has short interludes of slightly better that...

from Stbalbach

The seventh volume in the Les Rougon-Macquart cycle of 20 novels. Along with 'Nana' and 'Germinal' it is probably his most famous. It is also his most controversial, outraging many contemporary conservative critics with NSFW language and portrayals of sex and violence - the perversion of pre-teen...

from jasonlf

I used to think that Bernard Malamud's The Fixer was the most relentlessly bleak and depressing book because it went from bad to worse to much worse over the course of the novel. But L'Assommoir (translated here as The Drinking Den) beats it because it has short interludes of slightly better that...

from japaul22

[L'Assomoir] follows the hard, sad life of Gervaise from her arrival in Paris at age 18 with her partner, Lantier, and their two young boys (yes, she had her first child at 14!) through her death. I don't consider it a spoiler to say that things don't work out well for Gervaise - you can sense im...