L.A.S. Paris 12 February 1877, 1 p. in-8°: about the welcome given at L'Assommoir.
Zola thanks his correspondent for "your sympathetic article in the Courrier de France. I count my defenders, and you are one of those who have best penetrated my intentions. Certainly, yes, I believe I have written a work of art, and this is what consoles me from all the scandalous noise that is made around my work... ».
L'Assommoir was published in 1876, the first novel on the people, which aroused fierce controversy because it was considered too crude...
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