Résumé
'Germinal', often considered Zola’s masterpiece, tells the story of Etienne Lantier, a bright however uneducated young man with a volatile temperament who has just lost his job as a railway worker. He sets out for a small mining town where he finds a new job as a cart pusher. But the incessant clashes between the capitalists and the working class, alongside the appalling working conditions and dire poverty the workers are forced to endure, slowly but surely bring the narrative to its only possible denouement: revolution. Abounding with vivid descriptions of the miner’s inner and outer worlds, as well as the violent and often unjustified impulses of man, 'Germinal' is a superbly written, unforgettable novel. 'Germinal' voices outrage at the downtrodding of the many by the few, but also displays humanity’s limitless capacity for compassion and hope.Widely regarded as the founding father of scientific naturalism in literature, which aimed to describe the human condition as it really is, Zola was considered an influence by many prominent artists and writers of his time and the coming era, such as Vincent van Gogh, Tom Wolfe and John Steinbeck.Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist, journalist, and playwright, and one of the most important representative of French naturalism. His literary topics include violence and its repercussions, alcoholism and problems within the family unit. Zola influenced countless writers representative of the "new journalism" style of writing, namely Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, and Gay Talese. His best known works include 'Germinal', 'Nana' and 'Work'. Nominated twice in the first two instances of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Auteur
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Émile Zola (1840-1902) fut le chef de file de l'école littéraire naturaliste à laquelle appartinrent, entre autres, Maupassant et Huysmans. Inventeur d'un roman expérimental qu'il voulait rattacher et même annexer à la science, et plus particulièrement à la physiologie et à la génétique, sa somme des Rougon-Macquart, qui est l'histoire d'une famille sous le Second Empire, fut conçue comme un prolongement de la Comédie humaine de Balzac sous l'éclairage à la fois des théories socialistes, du positivisme d'Auguste Comte et de la médecine. De là cette vaste fresque en de nonbreux volumes (dont Au Bonheur des Dames, publié en 1883) où l'enquète documentaire et le tableau social ont parfois tendance à l'emporter sur l'aventure individuelle, mais d'où monte un vision puissante, un souffle d'épopée, et qui connut, en tout cas, un grand succès de librairie. Zola, romancier à gros tirages devenu homme public lors de l'affaire Dreyfus, fut contraint de s'exiler en Angleterre. Rentré en France et se consacrant désormais à des ouvrages à caractère allégorique et humanitaire, il fut bientôt interrompu dans sa tache par une mort par asphyxie dont il n'est pas exclu qu'elle ait été un assassinat. Ses obsèques furent suivies par une foule considérable et ses cendres ont été transférées au Panthéon en 1908.
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Henry Havelock Ellis, conhecido como Havelock Ellis (2 de fevereiro de 1859 - 8 de Julho de 1939), foi um médico e psicólogo britânico, escritor e reformador social que estudou a sexualidade humana. Foi co-autor, em 1987, do primeiro livro médico em Inglês sobre a homossexualidade e também publicou trabalhos sobre uma variedade de práticas e inclinações sexuais, incluindo a psicologia dos transgéneros. É-lhe creditada a introdução das noções de narcisismo e auto-erotismo, mais tarde adotada pelos psicanalistas. Como pensador contemporâneo progressiva, apoiou a eugenia e foi presidente do Instituto de Galton. Saber mais na Wikipedia...
Caractéristiques
Editeur : Saga Egmont International
Publication : 6 décembre 2021
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)
Taille(s) : 737 ko (ePub)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9788726668506
