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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Zola, Emile

Zola, Emile
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
General Introduction

One might judiciously begin a compendium on Emile Zola's Germinal with a
discretionary note concerning what some might consider to be sinister elements
of Socialist or Communist sympathy in Zola's work, plus a discretionary remark
relating to certain elements of plot material and description which people of
extremely mild sensibilities might consider to be obscene. Germinal is based
almost entirely on coal mine actualities, and as college-level material, it
seems inconceivable that alleged obscenity could be actually considered as an
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