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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.
Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry, in debt, and unable to feed and clothe their families.
Nov 10, 2010 · Germinal. by. Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Publication date. 1885. Publisher. Chicago : Belford, Clarke. Collection.
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.
Why is Zola's novel called Germinal? What is "germinating"? Which mine does Monsieur Hennebeau own in Germinal by Émile Zola? Compare Catherine and Cécile's lives in Germinal by Émile Zola.
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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.
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...
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