by Emile Zola · ISBN 9782738206350
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«Germinal» is the novel by Émile Zola published by Fasquelle in French.
Set in the mining basin of northern France, it recounts the harsh living conditions of coal workers and the outbreak of a strike that pits the miners against the owners of the mine. The novel portrays misery, solidarity, and workers' struggle in a climate of tension and hope for change.
It is the thirteenth novel in the series Les Rougon-Macquart, originally published in 1885.
For readers of 19th-century French literary classics and novels with a social and labor background.
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse...! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
