Espaço e linguagem: contribuições estético-literárias de germinal no estudo da sociedade industrial

Abstract

from the thesis that literature is knowledge production. We see the potential of this proposition in the space-time reading from unique human experiences. Thus, we believe that the research has an interpretative key in geographical analysis based on the interweaving of multiple languages. From the exploration of novel Germinal (1885) we evidenced their aesthetic contributions in the study of industrialization and workers emphasizing two crucial points: the human and environment relationship and its own mechanization. From this perspective, our key analysis proves valid and consistent comprising a seizing way of man, the geographic space and industrial society. Germinal is notably the remarkable book of Émile Zola (1840-1902) in view of its force and impact. The french naturalist writer faced the drama work in the mining shafts, lived with the workers and in an unique way painted the social and political life of his time. The nineteenth century is seen as a period of profound technological, economic and social transformations through the intensification of industrialization and urbanization. The context of great revolutions marked unprecedented transformations highlighting the birth of the proletariat. With the episode of the saga of the Rougon- Macquart, the working class comes once in the literary universe caused by the Germinal revolution . Zola was participant of reality which reflected featuring an unnerving narrative highlighting the contrasts of a society guided by the human misery and the material wealth. We seek the atmosphere of degeneration inherent of the naturalistic aesthetics a plausible and provocative expression on industrialization as a historical and geographical phenomenon.