“Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.”
Emile Zola book Germinal
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Emile ZolaOriginal title Germinal (French, 1885)
Germinal is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s – has been published and translated in over one hundred countries and has additionally inspired five film adaptations and two television productions.
