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1885. Disparition de Hugo. Apparition de Germinal. Voici, dans la France moderne et industrielle, les " Misérables " de Zola. Ce roman des mineurs, c'est aussi l'Enfer, dans un monde dantesque, où l'on " voyage au bout de la nuit ". Mais à la fin du prodigieux itinéraire au centre de la terre, du fond du souterrain où il a vécu si longtemps écrasé, l'homme enfin se redresse et surgit dans une révolte pleine d'espoirs. C'est la plus belle et la plus grande Ouvre de Zola, le poème de la fraternité dans la misère, et le roman de la condition humaine.
Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Emile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty of a mining community in northern France
Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Compelled to take a back-breakin job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all. The thirteenth novel in 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.
