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Oxford Times' -
- ''A good translator uses the language of his day; the original text remains fixed, but translations must move with the times. Collier's, though differing from, and not always improving on, Tancock's, is likely to have the same startling effect on the reader coming fresh to it today as his prdecessor's had forty years ago.'
F.W.J. Hemmings, French Studies, Vol. 48, Part 4' -
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| Description | Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal
(1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'.
The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and
eventually leads his fellow-miners in a strike protesting against pay-cuts - a strike which becomes a losing battle against starvation, repression, and sabotage. Yet despite all the violence and disillusion which rock the mining community to its foundations, Lantier retains his belief in the ultimate germination of a new society, leading to a better world.
Germinal
is a dramatic novel of
working life and everyday relationships, but it is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigour and power in this new translation.
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Readership: Students of French from A-level up; students of comparative literature; nineteenth-century literature; especially literature of Naturalism; Zola fans; general readers.
| Authors, editors,
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Émile Zola
Translated by Peter Collier, Fellow and University Lecturer in French, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
With an Introduction by Robert Lethbridge, University Lecturer in French; Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
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