IDENTITY
L'Assommoir
Literature
Work Summary
L'Assommoir by Émile Zola is a novel about the Parisian laundress Gervaise Macquart, whose efforts to build a respectable working life collapse under poverty, alcoholism and destructive relationships. Zola portrays working-class labour and domestic life while tracing the social and physical consequences of addiction and deprivation.
Evidence Summary
Van Gogh singles out this novel as one he often thinks about.
Same passage places Zola beside Hugo and Balzac in a discussion of literary analysis.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Émile Zola
Work
L'Assommoir
Years / Period
30 Apr 1883
Van Gogh Relation
Read
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
it’s L’assommoir above all that I often think of.
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
30 Apr 1883 — Letter 338
Read earlier / recalled repeatedly
it’s L’assommoir above all that I often think of.
Response: Van Gogh singles out this novel as one he often thinks about.
Connection: Same passage places Zola beside Hugo and Balzac in a discussion of literary analysis.
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