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    Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel
    Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel
    Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel
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    Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel

    By Emile Zola

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    Pot-Bouille explores the adventures of young and handsome Octave Mouret. He moves into a new housing arrangement called Rue de Choiseul and takes a salesman's job at a nearby shop, The Ladies' Paradise. The story follows his struggles at work and several affairs from his neighbor to his boss's wife over a short period. He tries to seduce women who can provide him with some social or financial benifits. But the curiosity of who he settles with ends later in the story. The novel accounts for the activities of the building's other residents along with Octave, including the Campardons, the Duveyriers, the Josserands, the Vabres, and the Pichons over the course of two years. This work by the French novelist, Emilie Zola, is an indictment of the social norms of the bourgeoisie of the Second French Empire. Zola was a famous practitioner of naturalism and a prominent figure in the political liberalization of France.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateJun 2, 2022
    ISBN8596547038443
    Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel
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    Emile Zola

    Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist, journalist, and playwright. Born in Paris to a French mother and Italian father, Zola was raised in Aix-en-Provence. At 18, Zola moved back to Paris, where he befriended Paul Cézanne and began his writing career. During this early period, Zola worked as a clerk for a publisher while writing literary and art reviews as well as political journalism for local newspapers. Following the success of his novel Thérèse Raquin (1867), Zola began a series of twenty novels known as Les Rougon-Macquart, a sprawling collection following the fates of a single family living under the Second Empire of Napoleon III. Zola’s work earned him a reputation as a leading figure in literary naturalism, a style noted for its rejection of Romanticism in favor of detachment, rationalism, and social commentary. Following the infamous Dreyfus affair of 1894, in which a French-Jewish artillery officer was falsely convicted of spying for the German Embassy, Zola wrote a scathing open letter to French President Félix Faure accusing the government and military of antisemitism and obstruction of justice. Having sacrificed his reputation as a writer and intellectual, Zola helped reverse public opinion on the affair, placing pressure on the government that led to Dreyfus’ full exoneration in 1906. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902, Zola is considered one of the most influential and talented writers in French history.

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