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Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s – has been published and translated in over one hundred countries.
Émile Zola, Roger Pearson (Translator) 4.19. 38,507 ratings2,207 reviews. The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.
Feb 8, 2018 · Yet Germinal occupies a place among Zola's works which is constantly becoming more assured, so that to some critics it even begins to seem the only book of his that in the end may survive. In his own time, as we know, the accredited critics of the day could find no condemnation severe enough for Zola.
Germinal (1885) is the thirteenth in Émile Zola's cycle of twenty novels about the Rougon-Macquart dynasty. It tells the story of Étienne Lantier, from the illegitimate Macquart branch of the...
May 16, 2018 · Germinal. Emile Zola. Courier Dover Publications, May 16, 2018 - Fiction - 416 pages. Set in the 1860s in northern France, Zola's masterpiece of naturalistic fiction portrays the hardships of a...
May 25, 2004 · Germinal. Emile Zola. Penguin, May 25, 2004 - Fiction - 592 pages. The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the...
Feb 8, 2018 · Germinal Credits: Dagny and Marc D’Hooghe Language: English: LoC Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese: Subject: Coal miners -- Fiction Subject: Coal mines and mining -- Fiction Subject: Political fiction Subject: Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction Subject: Labor disputes -- Fiction Subject
Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'.
Jan 22, 2023 · INTRODUCTION. G ERMINAL was published in 1885, after occupying Zola during the previous year. In accordance with his usual custom—but to a greater extent than with any other of his books except La Débâcle —he accumulated material beforehand.
Complete summary of Émile Zola's Germinal. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Germinal.
