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John Berger gives a personal impression of the lives of those in the mining community and compares his situation as an observer with that of Emile Zola in his documentation of the mining village in... Germinal. Berger believes that Germinal is a book about a dream - at times a nightmare - into which Zola projected his conscious and unconscious fears and hopes.
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Module code and title: A312, The nineteenth century novel and its legacy
Item code: A312; 11
First transmission date: 26-07-1982
Published: 1982
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Duration: 00:23:18
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Producer: Nuala O'Faolain
Contributor: John Berger
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): Novel writing; Zola, Emile
Master spool number: HOU3953
Production number: FOUA116P
Videofinder number: 1906
Available to public: no