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The Downfall

Émile Zola

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .March, march, onward ever, with no look behind, through mud, through rain, to the bitter end!





VI.

"Thunder!" Chouteau ejaculated the following morning when he awoke, chilled and with aching bones, under the tent, "I wouldn't mind having a bouillon with plenty of meat in it."

At Boult-aux-Bois, where they were now encamped, the only ration issued to the men the night before had been an extremely slender one of potatoes; the commissariat was daily more and more distracted and disorganized by the everlasting marches and countermarches, never reaching the designated points of rendezvous in time to meet the troops. As for the herds, no one had the faintest idea where they might be upon the crowded roads, and famine was staring the army in the face.

Loubet stretched himself and plaintively replied:

"Ah, fichtre, yes!—No more roast goose for us now."

The squad was out of sorts and sulky. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Zola daha önce de akıcı üslubundan, hikayeciliğinden ve sınıf mücadelesini ele alma biçiminden etkilendiğim “zaten ne yazsa okunur,” diye düşündüğüm bir yazardı. Yıkılış’a da bunun verdiği güvenle, en azından keyifli zaman geçiririm beklentisiyle, kitap hakkında pek fikrim olarak başladım. Ve beklen

Postoje meni draži Zolini romani ali Slom mu sigurno jeste objektivno jedan od najboljih.

LA DEBACLE, de Émile Zola

"Él, nacido en 1841, educado como un señorito, hecho un abogado, capaz de realizar las mayores tonterías y de abrigar los más grandes entusiasmos, vencido en Sedán, en una catástrofe que adivinaba era inmensa, que acababa un mundo, y aquella degeneración de la raza, que expl

Better than War and Peace? Maybe. Certainly belongs on any list of great novels about the brutality of war. Some scenes felt to me akin to those in the great WW1 novels which would not come for another 30 years or so.

The end felt a little rushed - I would have liked more time in the Commune etc. One

This is superb. A historical novel about the astonishing failure of the French at Sedan on Prussia's 1870 invasion. I've read it two or three times, and will read it again. What greater praise can there be than that?

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