Germinal

by Émile Zola, Peter Collier, Robert Lethbridge

Overview

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!"

While it is a dramatic novel of working life and everyday relationships, Germinal is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigor and power in this new translation. It is also the thirteenth book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, which celebrates its centenary in October 1993 with a new film version of Germinal starring Gerard Depardieu.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199536894
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2008
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	576
Sales rank:	525,912
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Émile Zola est un écrivain et journaliste français, né le 2 avril 1840 à Paris et mort le 29 septembre 1902 dans la même ville. Considéré comme le chef de file du naturalisme, c'est l'un des romanciers français les plus populaires, les plus publiés, traduits et commentés dans le monde entier.

Editorial Reviews

"Superb."—Professor James Chastain, Ohio University

"This is far and away the best English translation of Germinal currently available. The translator has captured the nineteenth century flavor of the original without sacrificing clarity or meaning. The introduction and notes are excellent and the map of Montsou and vicinity is a stroke of genius."—Professor Richard Cumming, University of Utah

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