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Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s – has been published and translated in over one hundred countries.
Germinal is a 1993 French epic film based on the 1885 novel by Émile Zola. It was directed by Claude Berri, and stars Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou and Renaud. At the time it was the most expensive movie ever produced in France. It was the fourth most attended film of the year in France.
Émile Zola, Roger Pearson (Translator) 4.19. 38,507 ratings2,207 reviews. The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.
Mar 31, 1994 · Germinal: Directed by Claude Berri. With Miou-Miou, Renaud, Jean Carmet, Judith Henry. In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
Feb 8, 2018 · So, in the little Cornish cottage over the sea we then occupied, the evenings of the early months of 1894 were spent over Germinal, I translating aloud, and she with swift efficient untiring pen following, now and then bettering my English dialogue with her pungent wit.
Jun 10, 2020 · The 13th novel in the series, Germinal, published in 1895, is unequivocally one of Zola’s greatest novels in its harsh depiction of miners’ strikes during the 1860s.
May 1, 2004 · Germinal Credits: This eBook was produced by Carlo Traverso Language: French: LoC Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese: Subject: Coal miners -- Fiction Subject: Coal mines and mining -- Fiction Subject: Political fiction Subject: Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction Subject: Labor disputes ...
Germinal: With Louis Peres, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Alix Poisson, Thierry Godard. The story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.
Jan 22, 2023 · INTRODUCTION. G ERMINAL was published in 1885, after occupying Zola during the previous year. In accordance with his usual custom—but to a greater extent than with any other of his books except La Débâcle —he accumulated material beforehand.
