基本信息出版社：Wordsworth Editions Ltd
页码：496 页
出版日期：2007年07月
ISBN：1840226188
International Standard Book Number：1840226188
条形码：9781840226188
EAN：9781840226188
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Wordsworth Classics of World Literature

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Germinal (1885) is the thirteenth in ??mile Zola's cycle of twenty novels about the Rougon-Macquart dynasty. It tells the story of ??tienne Lantier, from the illegitimate Macquart branch of the family, who arrives in the mining settlement of Montsou, and witnesses at first hand the appalling conditions in which miners live and work. Gradually becoming embroiled in a bitter dispute between the miners and their employers, he eventually leads the strike which is the centrepiece of the novel. But this is more than the struggle of labour against capital. It is also the struggle of the hungry against the well-fed, against the passivity and resignation passed down over generations of starving people, and ultimately against hunger itself, represented by the fantastical devouring monster of the mine, which swallows up men, just as the beast of the modern industrial economy relentlessly swallows up capital. This apparent pessimism about society is offset by the possibility of rebirth and regeneration. For all the inherited misery of the downtrodden, the old order may some day be overturned.