Germinal by Emile Zola
Written by Zola(1840-1902),the leading figure in the French school of Naturalistic fiction,GERMINAL (1885) is the compelling portrait of life in a mining community.The title of the novel refers back to a turbulent period of history,an era of violent change and expected renewal,and the novel itself is the thirteenth ofa twenty-volume series known as 'Rougon-Macquart'series after the names of rhe main branches,one legitimate,the othe illegitimate,of a single family.Gervaise Macquart,whose unhappy tale is told in L'ASSOMMOIR,is the mother of the hero in GERMINAL,Etienne.Etienne is a political figure as well as a compelling psychological study.Through him Zola examines the problems of industrial strife and traces the growing influence of socialism and anarchism.Helen Constantine was Head of Modern Languages at Bartholomew School near Oxford before retiring from teaching in 2000. She is now a full-time translator and editor. From 2003 to 2012 she was co-editor of the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation. She has published four volumes of
translated stories, Paris Tales, Paris Metro Tales, French Tales, and Paris Steet Tales. Her translations include The Conquest of Plassans by Zola, and Flaubert's A Sentimental Education for Oxford World's Classics. Brian Nelson is Emeritus Professor (French Studies and Translation Studies) at Monash University, Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has been editor of the Australian Journal of French Studies since 2002. His publications include The Cambridge Companion to Zola
(CUP, 2017), Zola and the Bourgeoisie (Palgrave Macmillan, 1983), and translations of Earth, The Fortune of the Rougons, The Belly of Paris, The Kill, Pot Luck, and The Ladies' Paradise for Oxford World's Classics. He was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Translation in 2015. His most
recent critical work is The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature (CUP, 2015).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780460875813 |
| ISBN 10 | 0460875817 |
| Title | Germinal |
| Author | Emile Zola |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 1996-05-06 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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