Pot Luck Review

IntroductionTranslator's NoteSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Émile Zola--Pot LuckExplanatory Notes...

Zola again writes with contempt and, at times, dark humor about the duplicity of all parts of society during the Second Empire. I can't think of one sympathetic or likeable character—much like his n...

A prototypical bedroom farce. The bible for 1970s British comedy scriptwriters. ...

I expected to like this and I was not disappointed. I did not read the new translation by Brian Nelson, but the description given for his translation aptly describes the basis for the story. Zola call...

Well, here we are at No 7 in the recommended reading order for those wanting to read Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels. It’s Pot-Bouille, written in 1882 and translated variously as Pot Luck,...

Librairie Générale Française (1974), Mass Market Paperback, 510 pages (French Edition)Original publication date: 1882I was rather amused to find that in the introduction to this cheap, badly printe...

Filthy! I feel like I need a shower. Was looking forward to the next one I'm planning to read, The Ladies' Paradise, but if vapid, eternally desperate Octave is the main character...bleh. I'm sure Zol...

Continuing our tour of the French society of the second empire we reach a strange category of people. Members of the bourgeoisie, with aristocratic behavior, strong moral principles and a dignified ap...

In the French Second Empire Middle Class respectability is not that respectableAnd that is about all you need to know about Emile Zola’s Pot Luck. There is a certain sympathy for the Catholic Father...

"Pot Luck", according to a reviewer in Le Temps Moderne, was Zola's "all-about-the-fuckin'" installment of his 20-volume Les Rougons-Macquart chronicle. And there is plenty of fuckin'. In fact, the ov...