Germinal - Emile Zola
| Автор: | Emile Zola |
| Издательство: | Ingram |
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| Жанр произведения: | Контркультура |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9781515446194 |
The novel's central character is Étienne Lantier, previously seen in L'Assommoir (1877), a young migrant worker who arrives at the forbidding coalmining town of Montsou in the bleak far north of France to earn a living as a miner. Sacked from his previous job on the railways for assaulting a superior – he befriends the veteran miner Maheu, who finds him somewhere to stay and gets him a job pushing the carts down the pit. Étienne is portrayed as a hard-working idealist but also a naïve youth;.