Étienne Lantier
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Germinal is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. 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.
4.19. 38,324 ratings2,183 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. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper.
Philomène Levaque, the eldest daughter and Zacharie’s mistress, coughs from her lung ailment. Such is the life of those who work in the mine pits. Étienne is given a job in the mine. He ...
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Germinal figures prominently in the first part of the book’s analysis. Walker, Philip. Zola. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. Compares Germinal to an intricately crafted fresco teeming ...
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
Feb 8, 2018 · Seillière, while regarding the capitalistic conditions presented as now of an ancient and almost extinct type, yet sees Germinal standing out as 'the poem of social mysticism', while André Gide, a completely modern critic who has left a deep mark on the present generation, observes somewhere that it may nowadays cause surprise that he should refer with admiration to Germinal, but it is a masterly book that fills him with astonishment; he can hardly believe that it was written in French and ...
