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• Published on: 1963
• Binding: Paperback
• 499 pages

499pages. poche. Broché.

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Should be required reading for all politicians on the make
By Sean Gilligan
If it hadn't been part of my Open University syllabus, I might never have got round to reading this visceral account of a mining community and its struggle for justice and liberation in post-revolutionary France. I had read three of Zola's novels, and pretty harrowing they were too - as was this, what many consider to be his masterpiece. It made me appreciate, albeit dimly, the back-breaking work of my father, a miner in mid-twentieth-century England; whether conditions were quite as unforgiving as they are portrayed here I'll never know, since he's been dead a long time, but the desperation of a community that refuses to be crushed even as the literal and figurative mines collapse on them is palpable, and certainly made me count my blessings in my modest but comfortable abode. The account of the moral decay and regression that extreme, unremitting poverty can foster is unflinching - a few incidents described here are truly atrocious; and the jury's still out on Zola's own moral standpoint and just what he means to achieve with his "naturalist" method (in fact I'm doing an assignment on it as we speak). Character certainly gives way to events in this as in other writings of Zola, and perhaps that is the greatest lesson of his work: that even the best of us, like the idealist Etienne and the loyal-hearted Catherine, could be driven to unspeakable degradation if pushed too far. It should be required reading for anyone aspiring to a career in 'public service', the euphemism for politicians on the make. The translation is a lively one, though it contains a few suspiciously modern idioms - but still, they don't detract from the spirit of this relentless novel.

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Labour versus Capital
By Docdaved
Germinal is one of the great novels of the 19th century. It stands alone but is all the better when read alongside La Terre which is very much a companion piece. Better still one can read it in terms of the whole Rougon-Macquart series of novels, though I expect that many readers do not have the time nor the inclination to do this. The major characters e.g. Etienne Lantier and Catherine, Mahue and Maheude are superbly drawn and we can see the development of each as the novel progresses. The second tier of characters are also well defined though they usually do not develop much and some e.g. Rasseneur maintain their views throughout. They are the rocks on which working class organisations were built. There are dozens of minor characters who add to Zola's attempt at realism and bring us the great social sweep of this novel. The descriptions of life (and death) underground, poverty and the effects of the strike are heart rending. Political theory and activists all come under scrutiny (Marx for instance, and anarchists through the character of Souvarine) and they do not escape criticism, though we feel that Zola is on the side of the people - a form of socialism but without some of socialism's attendant naivete. The introduction and the notes are informative but on the thin side. Some readers would want more, I think, but then Wordsworth editions are always minimalist in this area. However, this does not detract too much from the great struggle of labour versus capital that Zola set out to write.

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Harrowing, exciting, deeply moving, and intensely readable.
By Molly Marsden
It's 1866. Etienne Lantier arrives at Le Voreux coal mine. He sees an old driver toiling to and fro with his horse on the spoil heap, lit only by the light of three braziers, while all around the night wind keens over a featureless dust blackened plain. The driver tells him there aren't any jobs, but soon Lantier finds employment there as a miner, and lodges with the Maheu family, the central protagonists of the novel.Thus begins Emile Zola's masterpiece; written with passion wrung from his soul by the poignancy of human endeavour against impossible odds. The bravery the miners show in facing up to hunger and danger frequently moves the reader to tears. This is not the degrading crime ridden poverty of Dickens' London, but more Tennyson's `honest poverty, bare to the bone.' It's 4am on a typical morning. The Maheu family from Village Two Hundred and Forty are getting ready for their shift; Maheu and his children, Zacherie 21, Catherine 15, and Jeanlin 11. Although suffering from the debilitating effects of hunger they're buoyant and exchanging ribald jests with each other. Below, far from the shaft and little hope of escape in an emergency, the men hew coal while the children wheel it away down long tunnels; tunnels barely allowing room to stand. They work semi naked in oppressive heat, choked by dust, soaked by water cascading from overhead (for the menacing underground sea known as the Torrent is eternally trying to break through), at risk from rock falls and the insidious firedamp. All for wages depressed to subsistence level. Poor little Catherine evokes the most sympathy as, `more sinned against than sinning', she stoically stands up to abuse that goes from bad to worse.Zola explores in graphic detail the miners' lives and loves, and set against vivid portrayal of the insatiable mine as it gorges on its diet of human flesh, the narrative unwinds in steady acelleration towards the cataclysmic finale.Apart from the miners stand the mine owner, (some mysterious power far away that nobody knows how to contact), shareholders Gregoire, manager M. Hennebeau, engineer Paul Negrel his nephew, and M. Deneulin a small entrepreneur who owns Jean- Bart, the mine adjacent to Le Voreux. Zola deals objectively with relations between labour and capital, although showing his contempt for the naïve attitude of the Hennebeau and Gregoire daughters. Not all the miners are good. Nor are all the capitalists bad. For when Lantier, moved by the appalling conditions incites a strike, hunger degenerates into famine. Bands of miners roam the area pleading for bread. Saboteurs attack the mines heedlessly ignoring the danger they're exposing their comrades to; until a wanton act destroys the mine completely. Deneulin, a reasonably benign employer for the times, is ruined when his own mine is sabotaged, and Negrel turns out to be a hero.The strike fails and Lantier loses his influence. But there is hope, for as he leaves on a Spring day by the road he arrived on, he senses his comrades toiling away beneath his feet, wresting the coal from the depths of the earth; 'a black army of vengeance' that one day will rise and have its way. As the seeds rise from the earth--- Germinal!Harrowing the novel may be. It will haunt you. It will tear at your heart. And you will want to read it again.

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