A coal miners' strike in northern France builds to a doomed, violent uprising against the owners. Zola's towering novel of labor and capital.
Books that mention Germinal (2)
Spring by Ali Smith: “'Germinal ... waarom Zola zijn roman over hopeloze hoop die revolutionaire titel gaf'”
Vita Sexualis by Mori Ōgai: “Such a suspicion had crossed his mind when he read Zola's novels as well. It was in Germinal and the like, where he describes the people of a workers' settlement at the extreme of hardship and a passage in which someone goes to peep at a man and woman at a rendezvous, that he had thought so. [auto-translated]”