Pot Luck
Author
Original Work
Translator
Foreword / Afterword
Brian Nelson
Annotations
Brian Nelson
Language
Year
2009
Publisher
Country
United Kingdom
Pages
381
ISBN
9780199538706
Zola's most acerbic social satire, Pot Luck is set in a newly constructed block of flats in the Rue de Choiseul, Paris. Although it seems a place of prosperity and harmony, it is riddled with snobbery and hypocrisy. Systematically exposing the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola reveals a multitude of adulteries and betrayals, and depicts a veritable `melting pot' of moral and sexual degeneracy. This new translation captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language, and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions.— Google Books
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