Au Bonheur des Dames

Name: Au Bonheur des Dames
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ISBN: 9780520078673

ISBN-10: 0520078675

ISBN-13: 9780520078673

Edition: 1991

Authors: ï¿½mile Zola, Kristin. Ross, Chris Nelson

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Zola's prophetic celebration of unbridled commerce and consumerism, The Ladies' Paradise (Au bonheur des dames, 1883) recounts the frenzied transformations that made late nineteenth-century Paris the fashion capital of the world. The novel's capitalist hero, Octave Mouret, creates a giant department store that devours the dusty, outmoded boutiques surrounding it. Paralleling the story of commercial triumph is the love story between Mouret and the innocent Denise Baudu, who comes to work in The Ladies' Paradise. She provides the crucial link between Mouret and the three essential social groups in the novel: the female clientele, the shopgirls, and the petit bourgeois shopkeepers of the…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/13/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 383
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Kristin Ross is professor of comparative literature at NYU and author of several books, including May '68 and Its Afterlives and Fast Cars, Clean Bodies.