GERMINAL

Germinal

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 as well as inspiring five film adaptations and two television productions.

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germinal

Adjective

  1. Pertaining or belonging to a germ.
  2. Of or pertaining to something very small, as small as a germ; pertaining to the essence of something.
    It was only the most germinal idea, to start writing a book, originally.


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