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appeared in 1896 and has been reprinted many times. Until 2007 this remained the only English version widely available. Henry's original full edition was afterward reprinted in Paris for adventurous English readers. The novel was newly translated in 1955 by
220:, the novel conveys a powerful atmosphere of life in the great market halls and of working class suffering. There are a number of vivid descriptive passages, the most famous of which, his description of the olfactory sensations experienced upon entering a 227:, has become known as the "Cheese Symphony" due to its ingenious orchestral metaphors. Throughout the book, the painter Claude Lantier, a relative of the Macquarts and later the protagonist of 207:
and his wife Lisa Quenu (formerly Macquart), with whom he finds refuge. They get him a job in the market as a fish inspector. After getting mixed up in an ineffectual
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the novel was one of those revised and expurgated by his son, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly; this mutilated version entitled
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Although Zola had yet to hone his mastery of working-class speech and idioms displayed to such good effect in
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was a landmark of modernity in the city, the wholesale and retail center of a thriving food industry.
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plot against the Empire, Florent is arrested and deported again.
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The Fat and the Thin, Book Three of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
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Index

Émile Zola
Les Rougon-Macquart
Novel
Une page d'amour
La joie de vivre

[ləvɑ̃tʁdəpaʁi]
Émile Zola
Les Rougon-Macquart
Les Halles
Paris
Second Empire
working class
political prisoner
French coup of 1851
charcutier
socialist
L'Assommoir
cheese
shop
L'ƒuvre
chorus
Henry Vizetelly
obscene libel
David Hughes
Marie-Jacqueline Mason
Elek Books
Oxford World's Classics
Brian Nelson
Modern Library

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