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Au Bonheur Des Dames
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Publish Date: Feb 26th, 2002
- Pages: 464
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.40in - 0.90in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780140447835
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Literary• Classics• City Life
About the Author
Robin Buss is a writer and translator who works for theIndependent on Sunday and as television critic for The Times Educational Supplement. He studied at the University of Paris, where he took a degree and a doctorate in French literature. He is part-author of the article 'French Literature' in Encyclopaedia Britannica and has published critical studies of works by Vigny and Cocteau, and three books on European cinema, The French Through Their Films (1988), Italian Films (1989) and French Film Noir (1994). He has also translated a number of volumes for Penguin Classics.
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What people are saying
Benedict Evans is a tech analyst and former venture capitalist.
The Web 1 OGs, who wish we were still using TypePad, RSS and blogrolls, and talk a lot about community-building, are a little like the old shopkeepers who shook their fists at department stores (Here's Baudu in Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames) https://t.co/uflA3jazfT
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‘Au Bonheur des Dames, or The Ladies’ Paradise, races along with enormous narrative verve . . . Zola teases us to the very last page . . . The shop is like a theatre, and Zola takes us behind the scenes’ || Andrew Wall, #SlightlyFoxed Issue 2 https://t.co/uxIBE5ccK2 https://t.co/CD5raU9coK
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@gewittrderrosen absolutely!! or at least the late-period era of both is about the same -- i think the consumerism critiques started earlier (eg something like the Clash Lost in the Supermarket, or even (lol) Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames)
What people are saying
Benedict Evans is a tech analyst and former venture capitalist.
The Web 1 OGs, who wish we were still using TypePad, RSS and blogrolls, and talk a lot about community-building, are a little like the old shopkeepers who shook their fists at department stores (Here's Baudu in Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames) https://t.co/uflA3jazfT
The good-looking, intelligent & slightly eccentric magazine & podcast for book lovers | Publishers of classic memoirs & children’s books | Worldwide shipping
‘Au Bonheur des Dames, or The Ladies’ Paradise, races along with enormous narrative verve . . . Zola teases us to the very last page . . . The shop is like a theatre, and Zola takes us behind the scenes’ || Andrew Wall, #SlightlyFoxed Issue 2 https://t.co/uxIBE5ccK2 https://t.co/CD5raU9coK