One of this author's novels depicts the seemingly inevitable descent into poverty of the tinsmith Coupeau and his wife Gervaise based on their rough origins. The daughter of the protagonists of that novel, L'Assommoir, is a prostitute whose beauty brings her to the theater, where she ruins many men before succumbing to smallpox. Besides Nana, another novel in this author's Rougon-Macquart cycle depicts Nana's brother Etienne who is deported after
One of this author's novels depicts the seemingly inevitable descent into poverty of the tinsmith Coupeau and his wife Gervaise based on their rough origins. The daughter of the protagonists of that novel, L'Assommoir, is a prostitute whose beauty brings her to the theater, where she ruins many men before succumbing to smallpox. Besides Nana, another novel in this author's Rougon-Macquart cycle depicts Nana's brother Etienne who is deported after a coal miners' strike. FTP, name this Frenchman who wrote Germinal and defended Alfred Dreyfus in his letter, "J'Accuse."
One of this author's novels depicts the seemingly inevitable descent into poverty of the tinsmith Coupeau and his wife Gervaise based on their rough origins.
Emile Zola