L'Assommoir on Histoire de Dix Ans: “He owned Louis Blanc's _Histoire de Dix Ans_, all but the first volume, which he had never had”
L'Assommoir on Histoire des Girondins: “which he had never had, Lamartine's _Les Girondins_, _The Mysteries of Paris_ and _The Wandering Jew_, by Eugène Sue”
L'Assommoir on The Mysteries of Paris: “He had "The History of Ten Years" by Louis Blanc (except for the first volume), Lamartine's "The Girondins" in installments, "The Mysteries of Paris" and "The Wandering Jew" by Eugene Sue, and a quantity of booklets on philosophic and humanitarian subjects picked up from used book dealers.”
L'Assommoir on The Wandering Jew: “He had "The History of Ten Years" by Louis Blanc (except for the first volume), Lamartine's "The Girondins" in installments, "The Mysteries of Paris" and "The Wandering Jew" by Eugene Sue, and a quantity of booklets on philosophic and humanitarian subjects picked up from used book dealers.”
Thérèse Raquin on Tom Thumb: “listened...with the affrighted and gaping countenances of small children listening to 'Blue Beard' or 'Tom Thumb.'”
Thérèse Raquin on Bluebeard: “listened...with the affrighted and gaping countenances of small children listening to 'Blue Beard' or 'Tom Thumb.'”
Spring on Germinal: “'Germinal ... waarom Zola zijn roman over hopeloze hoop die revolutionaire titel gaf'”
Vita Sexualis on Germinal: “Such a suspicion had crossed his mind when he read Zola's novels as well. It was in Germinal and the like, where he describes the people of a workers' settlement at the extreme of hardship and a passage in which someone goes to peep at a man and woman at a rendezvous, that he had thought so. [auto-translated]”
Floating Clouds on L'Assommoir: “Tomioka thought he would stop at a secondhand shop and buy a novel to take home. What he wanted to read was Zola. He recalled that a mixed-race typist at the forestry office in Dalat had once lent him Zola's L'Assommoir. [auto-translated]”
The Old Wives' Tale on La Débâcle: “"I've just been reading Zola's 'Downfall,'" he said. Her mind searched backwards, and recalled a poster. "Oh!" she replied. "'La Debacle'?"”