Para ser mi primer acercamiento a Zola ha sido mucho mejor de lo que esperaba, y sobre todo porque tenía el temor, en principio, de que fuera una lectura densa o que la forma de escribir del autor representara un obstáculo inicial. En absoluto lo es, de hecho, leer a Flaubert o a Balzac fue más complicado para mí que leer a Zola.

Per due volte tornò a piazzarsi davanti alla vetrina, incollandovi di nuovo l’occhio, esasperata nel vedere al riparo quei maledetti ubriaconi che continuavano a bere e a strillare. I fasci di luce che uscivano dall’Assommoir si riflettevano nelle pozzanghere che coprivano il selciato, e su cui la pioggia rimbalzava in mille piccole bollicine. Quando la porta si apriva e si richiudeva con il sinistro cigolio delle sue lastre di rame, era costretta a scansarsi e finiva nel fango. Alla fine si diede della stupida; spinse la porta e andò difilato verso il tavolino di Coupeau. A short note in The Times of 9th August 1949 on the rebuilding of the station noted that the “tavern” had been on the platform ever since the station was built in 1868. At the heart of the novel is Gervaise, a young mother abandoned by her lover, who has to fight to earn an honest living as a laundress and starcher. Eventually she marries one Monsieur Coupeau and initially it appears life will be clean, decent and manageable, but her husband starts drinking and thus begins the family’s downward spiral. L’Assommoir translated as The Gin Palace or The Drinking Den or The Dram Shop caused an uproar when first published – too fierce, too brutal, too sordid. Completely unapologetic, Zola simply replied that he wrote about life as it is actually lived among the poor. En las familias, sobre todo, cuando unos triunfan y brillan, los otros rabian de envidia. Pero es necesario disimular y no dar el espectáculo": Hasta en las mejores familias ocurre esto. Envidia encubierta y falsedad. Setting the stage for the following brutal action, Zola makes it perfectly clear that a family like this can afford no extra hardship. But of course he doesn't spare them - he is a master realist, after all!Does anyone remember in the 60’s a restaurant that was quite classy inside Baker Street Station. I used to take my little brother in there for soup or an omelette after shopping. It was such an integral part of the station that it must still be there , probably under a different name . Very swish inside. Gervasia, has hecho mella en mí. Nunca te olvidaré. He aprendido mucho con tus errores, pero también he crecido contigo en cada paso que has dado. Por lo que investigué antes de leer La taberna, no es necesario leer los veinte libros en orden, ya que cada uno es autoconclusivo (este definitivamente lo es). Además, en las notas de esta edición se mencionan personajes que pasarán a ser protagonistas de sus propias historias más adelante, un ejemplo sería la novela Germinal, la cual es protagonizada por uno de los hijos de Gervaise. A writer in All The Year Round of December 1867 praised the “modern magicians”, who had ended an abuse “under which the British railway traveller had groaned ever since railways were”.

The above is but one of the many vivid descriptions in the world of Émile Zola’s L'Assommoir, an urban underbelly of fleshy humanity emitting spit and sweet and stinking of booze; a swarm of filth and grime, grunting, gesticulating, swearing, slobbering. If this sounds like strong stuff, it is the very strong literary stuff of Zola-style naturalism, where we as readers are dragged ever so slowly through the boarding houses, streets and open sewers in the poorest slums of late nineteenth-century Paris.Paddington Station had a “blue room”, which was more due to the habit of calling the best room in the house a blue room, and by railway standards, this was said to have been quite a posh establishment. Iris described the bars as “the source of dark excitement, places of profound communication with London, with the sources of life.” They were the watering holds of Pluto’s kingdom. From now on, the family slides into desperation, alcoholism and violence. The accident on the roof is mirrored later when Nana sees her drunk father fall out of his bed, lying in his vomit, while her mother is engaged in depressed love-making with her half-brothers' father, the suddenly reappeared Lantier. To understand the brutality of her later life choices, Nana's childhood must be considered: Cómo se jode la vida la gente con el alcohol. Intentan ahogar las penas en el fondo del vaso y en realidad, no se dan cuenta de que éstas, mojadas, pesan más. Qué cantidad de cosas pierden por caer en este vicio tan insano: hasta el juicio y... se les escapa la vida gota a gota. Si se está familiarizado con el naturalismo (que fue un movimiento instaurado por el autor), se sabe que sus obras retratan lo más real posible el cómo se vive en un sector de la sociedad, en este caso la clase trabajadora, quien día con día debe mantenerse a flote en un mundo que le ha dado la espalda. Si bien esto ocurría en el París del siglo XIX, fácilmente podría darse en cualquier lugar, en cualquier momento de la historia, y por supuesto que también en la actualidad.

At Liverpool Street station could be found Pat-Mac’s Drinking Den, which was on the eastbound platform of the Metropolitan Line. It was converted into a cafe in 1977. That small pub also had the novelty of having a serving hatch leading directly onto the platform, letting passengers drink while waiting for a train. urn:lcp:drinkingden0000zola:epub:89487033-6860-433a-8642-7ac1b0850c4a Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4117 Identifier drinkingden0000zola Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7nq0fw8r Invoice 1853 Isbn 014044954XThe drinking ban of 2008 was more a case of tweaking the existing rules and throwing a ton of publicity at it to make it sound like something new was happening. Spiers and Pond also operated a venue at Moorgate station, and while on the station proper, it appears to have been accessed from outside the main building. important exporter of dairy produce. Language: Danish. Religion: Christian, Lutheran majority. Currency: krone. Capital: Copenhagen. Pop: 5 733 551 (2017 est). Area: 43 031 sq km (16 614 sq miles)