Germinal / Germinal

Émile Zola (1840-1902) — French writer, publicist, literary theorist, and political figure, one of the greatest representatives of the realism genre. The classic of literature provides a tangible and vivid representation of the life of the working class. Zola unfolds the problem of social inequality in bourgeois society in his works.
The novel «Germinal» (1885) — one of the «documents of the era» of the «Rougon-Macquart» cycle, which is an artistic embodiment of the «doctrine of naturalism». The heroes of the novel — miners who demand better working conditions. The author describes the reality of the strike, driven by grueling labor, poverty, and semi-starvation, without embellishment. Yet even in these inhuman conditions, the heroes fight for their ideals and love.
The book presents an unadapted shortened text in the original language.