Title : To the Ladies' Paradise - Émile Zola - book
Summary :
Octave Mouret drives women mad with desire. His Parisian department store, Au Bonheur des Dames , is a paradise for the senses. Fabrics pile up, dazzling, delicate. Everything a woman could buy in 1883, Octave Mouret sells, using revolutionary techniques. It is a huge success. But this bazaar is a disaster for the neighborhood; small businesses are dying out, and real estate speculation is on the rise. And the staff live a hellish life. Denise from Valognes ends up in this furnace, destitute but tenacious.
Zola makes the young girl and her powerful boss, who is in love with her, the symbol of modernism and the crises it provokes. No one will be able to enter a department store without feeling what Zola brilliantly describes: the tingling of life.
- EAN: 9782253002864
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