This novel is set in a newly constructed block of flats in Rue de Choiseul, Paris. Seemingly a place of prosperity and harmony, it is riddled with snobbery and hypocrisy. Exposing contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, revealing adulteries, betrayals, and depicts moral and sexual degeneracy.
Pot Luck (Pot-bouille) Summary
Pot Luck (Pot-bouille) by Emile Zola
This new translation of Zola's most acerbic social satire captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions.
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