Espaces ouvriers vs espaces bourgeois et indices des déséquilibres sociaux dans Germinal d’Emile Zola
Proletarian Spaces vs Bourgeois Spaces and Indices of Social Disequilibrium in Emile Zola’s Germinal

Summary/Abstract: The comparison between the workers’space and the bourgeois space is revealing the disparities in the living conditions of the two social classes, througt their places of work, their habits and their leisure spaces.On the side or the other, the milieu determines either a hereditary secular indigence of the minor, or a multigenerationnel secular opulence of the boss. On the one hand, the worker spends his youth and his energy needed to maintain the work of the mine, under difficult and perilous conditions. This at the risk of the collapse and chronic diseases, to sleep, to his descent in the promiscuity of the corons with a derisory salary. On the other hand, the bourgeois, by the concession of the land or by the placement of actions, imposes itself as the patron of the mass of workers whose labor he exploits in laziness and opulence.

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