by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080705495
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«Germinie Lacerteux» is the naturalist novel by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, published by Flammarion in paperback (308 pages, in French).
The novel follows Germinie Lacerteux, a young woman from the countryside who arrives in Paris as a servant, and narrates her fall into poverty and despair. Inspired by a real case, it offers a relentless portrait of her double life and of the working-class districts of nineteenth-century Paris; it is considered a precursor of French naturalism.
This 1990 edition offers the complete text, with introduction, appendices, chronology and bibliography by Nadine Satiat.
For readers of French classics and those interested in nineteenth-century naturalism; the critical apparatus of this edition facilitates its academic use.
Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.
