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angryTurtle
02-28-2012, 12:05 PM
Hello

The Goncourt brothers considered that their Germinie Lacerteux (1864) claimed that their novel was original in depicting the miseries of life of the 'lower classes' and in creating a new form of tragedy.

In what respect was this book a 'new form of tragedy'?

Thanks