Germinal
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 all the violence and disillusion which rock the mining community to its foundations, L…
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Weitere Autoren: Lethbridge, Robert (Solist) / Collier, Peter (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-953689-4
- EAN: 9780199536894
- Produktnummer: 3674849
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 538 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.9 cm 397 g
- Gewicht: 397
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