The Ladies' Paradise (BBC tie-in) - Brossura

Zola, Émile

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ISBN 10: 0199675961 ISBN 13: 9780199675968

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2012

Riassunto

The Ladies' Paradise is a compelling story of ambition and love set against the backdrop of the spectacular rise of the department store in 1860s Paris. Octave Mouret is a business genius who transforms a modest draper's shop into a hugely successful retail enterprise, masterfully exploiting the desires of his female customers and ruining small competitors along the way. Through the eyes of trainee salesgirl Denise we see the inner workings of the store and the relations and intrigues among the staff, human dramas played out alongside the relentless pursuit of commercial supremacy.

Now adapted for BBC Television and given a British setting in The Paradise, Zola's novel is a masterly portrayal of life in the bustling, gossipy world of the best department store in town.
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Recensione:

Brian Nelson's lively translation of Au Bonheur des Dames, which was inspired by the revolutionary "Bon Marché" department store, reminds us that this was a ground-breaking book about a seismic shift in social behaviour and gender roles: the first shopping-and-striving epic. (Boyd Tonkin, The Independent i)

L'autore:

Brian Nelson is an Emeritus Professor of French Studies and Translation at Monash University, Melbourne. He is the author or editor of twelve books on aspects of modern French and European culture, includingThe Cambridge Companion to Émile Zola, and he has translated four other Zola novels for theOxford World's Classics series.

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199675961
• ISBN 13: 9780199675968
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480