Germinie Lacerteux
7 hrs. 39 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Edmond de Goncourt
Author
Jules de Goncourt
Narrator
Svetlana Repina
Narrator
Svetlana Repina
Description
The literary legacy of the writers Jules and Edmond de Goncourt is an important stage in the development of the French novel of the 60s–70s of the 19th century. Like later Flaubert, the Goncourt brothers proclaimed the principle of carefully studying life and rendering contemporary reality truthfully and precisely in a novel.
The best novel by the Goncourts, “Germinie Lacerteux,” which sparked an intense debate in criticism, tells of the servant Germinie who falls in love with the shopkeeper’s son Julpilon, who exploits her in every way and forces her into unpayable debts. From now on, all her life becomes one continuous lie; she lives in constant fear that someone will learn about her double life.
A masterful depiction of the turmoil within Germinie’s soul—her pangs of conscience, her moral collapse, and a deep penetration into the heroine’s inner life—forms the realistic foundation of the novel. “This work represents a clinical study of love,”—a phrase from the Goncourt brothers’ preface that later became the motto of the young Zola.
The best novel by the Goncourts, “Germinie Lacerteux,” which sparked an intense debate in criticism, tells of the servant Germinie who falls in love with the shopkeeper’s son Julpilon, who exploits her in every way and forces her into unpayable debts. From now on, all her life becomes one continuous lie; she lives in constant fear that someone will learn about her double life.
A masterful depiction of the turmoil within Germinie’s soul—her pangs of conscience, her moral collapse, and a deep penetration into the heroine’s inner life—forms the realistic foundation of the novel. “This work represents a clinical study of love,”—a phrase from the Goncourt brothers’ preface that later became the motto of the young Zola.
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