The Ladies' Paradise Vizetelly Translation Unabridged eBook Émile Zola
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This carefully crafted ebook "The Ladies' Paradise (The Ladies' Delight) - Unabridged" is formatted for your eReader with a functional table of contents. Also known as Au Bonheur des Dames; The Ladies' Delight or The Ladies' Paradise; is the eleventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. The novel is set in the world of the department store, an innovative development in mid-nineteenth century retail sales. Zola models his store after Le Bon Marché, which consolidated under one roof many of the goods hitherto sold in separate shops. In Au Bonheur des Dames, the store is a symbol of capitalism, the modern city and the bourgeois family. It is emblematic of changes in consumer culture, sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. The novel tells the story of Denise Baudu, a 20-year-old woman from Valognes who comes to Paris with her brothers and begins working at the department store Au Bonheur des Dames as a saleswoman. Zola describes the inner workings of the store from the employees' perspective, including the 13-hour workdays, the substandard food and the bare lodgings (for the female staff). Many of the conflicts in the novel spring from the struggles for advancement and the malicious infighting and gossip among the staff. Au Bonheur des Dames is a sequel to "Pot-Bouille". Like its predecessor, Au Bonheur des Dames focuses on Octave Mouret (b. 1840), who at the end of the previous novel married Caroline Hédouin, the owner of a small silk shop. Now a widower, Octave has expanded the business into an international retail powerhouse occupying (at the beginning of the book) most of an entire city block. Au Bonheur des Dames has been made into a number of films, television series and plays.
The Ladies' Paradise Vizetelly Translation Unabridged eBook Émile Zola
I found this translation so dreadful I am going to go and buy it in book form - at least I can check the quality of the translation then. I'll give you some examples: "(H)owever, a desire for violence seizing him, he finished by getting into a rage with the salesman disbanded under the assault of the customers..." and "...it was also, in fact chiefly, the slow working of the appetites that were swallowing him up in his turn - the whole silent war of the department, amidst the very motion of the machine. Favier's obscure mining could be perceived - a deadened sound as of jaw-bones working under the earth."These are lifted from the one page - which I opened at random. There is much worse drawing of a cliched analogy of the department store working as a machine, I can tell you. I can see the translator working on the French in a very resolute way, but not really considering how his version might sound in English. There on the page is the literal translation of the florid French style - which even if I were translating, I would look for a more gentle English version, which wouldn't make your own jaw grind as it read of "jaw-bones working under the earth".
I love the story, and, as I said, I'm going to buy myself a hard copy. If you ask me, I'd say, get a hard copy, anything will be better translated than this one.
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The Ladies' Paradise Vizetelly Translation Unabridged eBook Émile Zola Reviews
Have you ever wondered how department stores got started? This novel takes you to one of the beginnings of these in France. The store in the novel was modeled after the Bon Marche. This first department store took off like a house on fire! Little shops dropped like flies while their owners lost their livelyhood. Commerce marched forward and we now have Wal-Mart! There's a love story mixed in but the detailed history out-weighed the somewhat frivolous affair between monsieur Mouret and Denise Badau. Since this was written in 1868 the accuracy and detail depicting the lives of these people was simply fascinating!! I enjoyed it thoroughly; love story and all!
This is probably my mistake, but I purchased this edition thinking it is a recent translation. However, evidently it is a digital print of a very old translation. The English is stilted and awkward as if working from a French to English dictionary. I was reading this with a book group; others in the group purchased the Brian Nelson translation which is far more readable - and I believe reissued in conjunction with the BBC television series. I cannot understand why anyone would want to read this version.
Crappy translation. I very much enjoyed the overall story. I liked it better than Pot Luck, the preceding novel in the series. But go with another translation. The translation, though possibly very accurate, as I haven't read it in French, was very modern and secular. A lot of cues from the period were lost. I never realized how much I liked reading the introductions and the notes about the various references. This is strictly the translation, nothing else. And worse, it's not been typed up properly. At least every couple of pages, I would be stuck on a word that wasn't quite right. Very situation . . . Every situation, he instead of The, things capitalized for no reason, quotes not done properly, there were passages where I wondered if whole paragraphs were missing. So while I highly recommend Ladies' Paradise, I do not recommend this book. One more thing, for those who love the BBC series Paradise, don't think that this will add to your viewing pleasure. Mouret is a scoundrel whom I'd hit if I met in person. But still a very good book.
Although the translation is a bit awkward and not as smooth as it should be plus there were actually a few grammatical errors and typos, the story in its simplicity, is delightful. I enjoyed the richness in detail in description of both an earlier Paris and the growing first huge department store. Certainly classic in design although I wish there was more dialogue as opposed to the dialogue mostly written in narrative form, and especially more dialogue between our two main characters seemed lacking. The tale is certainly thought provoking in regards to era and lifestyles in a time when women wasted away from melancholia so much so that they could die from lack of love. Also kind of amazing to see how little has changed in issues between wealthy and working poor, for example factory farming driving smaller family farms out of business.
Eye opening to know that basically although time changes and progress occurs people remain the same, courting power through wealth, and disdaining and using those of lower social strata.
A young entrepreneur sets up a department store in a prime location in a Paris neighborhood. We watch as the store gets bigger and the small stores around die and with them the families that live from their trade. In the midst of this there is also the love story of the entrepreneur and a young sales-woman, the small lives of the bourgeoisie (who are the main shoppers), the lives of the employees of the big store and how they compete, hate,and fight for sales, money and positions. In the same style as The Belly of Paris, where the descriptions were about glorious food, here the descriptions are vivid with the texture, color, softness, beauty, of the fabrics, the gloves, the linens, the rugs and so on, that are sold in the big department store. The reason why I love Zola's writing is because we can almost feel and touch his world. An excellent book.
This was a fantastic book, so well-written and perceptive it's difficult to think that it came out in 1883. Zola's description of the 'new commerce' is so today. His language isn't dated and he sees with a prophetic touch. He even talks in the book about trade unionism revolutionizing the 20th century while he wrote from the 19th. One can see in the Ladies' Paradise the beginning of the layout of Ikea or the departments of . I've read The Drinking Den, Nana and Germinal by Zola, all great, but this was the only one with a happy ending. It's an unclassical love story.
I found this translation so dreadful I am going to go and buy it in book form - at least I can check the quality of the translation then. I'll give you some examples "(H)owever, a desire for violence seizing him, he finished by getting into a rage with the salesman disbanded under the assault of the customers..." and "...it was also, in fact chiefly, the slow working of the appetites that were swallowing him up in his turn - the whole silent war of the department, amidst the very motion of the machine. Favier's obscure mining could be perceived - a deadened sound as of jaw-bones working under the earth."
These are lifted from the one page - which I opened at random. There is much worse drawing of a cliched analogy of the department store working as a machine, I can tell you. I can see the translator working on the French in a very resolute way, but not really considering how his version might sound in English. There on the page is the literal translation of the florid French style - which even if I were translating, I would look for a more gentle English version, which wouldn't make your own jaw grind as it read of "jaw-bones working under the earth".
I love the story, and, as I said, I'm going to buy myself a hard copy. If you ask me, I'd say, get a hard copy, anything will be better translated than this one.
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