ISBN: 0140440453
Godina izdanja: 1979
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Emile Zola - Germinal
Penguin 1979
498 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

The Penguin Classics | Tranlated by L.W. Tancock

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 symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted `Germinal! Germinal!`. The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventually leads his fellow-miners in a strike protesting against pay-cuts - a strike which becomes a losing battle against starvation, repression, and sabotage. Yet despite the violence and disillusion which rock the mining community to its foundations, Lantier retains his belief in the ultimate germination of a new society, leading to a better world. Germinal is a dramatic novel of working life, sexual desire, and everyday relationships, but it is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigour and power in this new translation.


Classics, French Literature, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Novels, 0140440453