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Piping Hot!

Émile Zola

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. . .Being very short-sighted he thought her pretty, with her pronounced Breton features and her hair the colour of dirty hemp. When she brought in the roast, a piece of veal, she leant right over his shoulder, to reach the centre of the table; and he, pretending to pick up his napkin, gave her a good pinch on the calf of her leg. The servant, not understanding, looked at him, as though he had asked her for some bread.

“What is it?” said Madame Josserand. “Did she knock against you, sir? Oh! that girl! she is so awkward! But, you know, she is quite new to the work; she will be better when she has had a little training.”

“No doubt, there is no harm done,” replied Trublot, stroking his bushy black beard with the serenity of a young Indian god.

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Community Reviews

Zola again writes with contempt and, at times, dark humor about the duplicity of all parts of society during the Second Empire. I can't think of one sympathetic or likeable character—much like his novel,
The Kill
—but found it thoroughly engaging nonetheless.

The setting is a modern apartment hous

Tohu-Bohu

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See also:

La Curée, Au Bonheur des Dames, L'Assommoir, Nana — Émile Zola
Histoires désobligeantes — Léon Bloy
L'arrache-cœur — Boris Vian
Mythologies — Roland Barthes
Mort à crédit — Louis-Ferdinand Céline
La vie mode d'emploi - Georges Perec

دیگ دیزی دهمین رمان از مجموعه روگن ماکاره و دنباله کتاب فتح پلاسان محسوب میشه و بخش اول کتاب بهشت بانوانه. این کتاب نسبت به بقیه کتاب های زولا خیلی مهجور و گمنام مونده. شخصیت اصلی این کتاب، اوکتاو موره هست که در کتاب فتح پلاسان تا حدی با اون آشنا شدیم. تو این کتاب، اوکتاو وارد پاریس میشه و در یک آپا

Octave Mouret arrives in Paris and moves into a new building in Paris. This book felt a natural follow on from Nana. In this novel it’s the bourgeoisie and their hypocrisies being exposed. The concierge constantly overlooks the obvious scandalous behaviours of the well off ‘what did not concern him

Pot-Bouille è il decimo libro pubblicato da Zola (1882) per il Ciclo dei Rougon-Maquart-*.
Titolo che , nelle edizioni italiane (difficili da trovare, a onor del vero...) lo troviamo tradotto con
“Quel che bolle in pentola” oppure “La solita minestra” o ancora “Dietro la facciata”.
Il termine Pot-boui

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