by Émile Zola · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475054971
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«Germinal» is the novel by Émile Zola, published by Ediciones Océano in 1982 in hardcover (518 pages, in Spanish).
Germinal is set in the mining region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, in northern France, around 1860, and narrates the harsh living and working conditions of the miners and their families. The novel describes the workers' struggle to improve their situation, with poverty and exploitation as a backdrop.
It belongs to the Les Rougon-Macquart series, by Émile Zola, as the thirteenth novel, and was originally published in 1885.
It is aimed at readers of classic French fiction and 19th-century social themes.
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.
