Le rôle des ''Misérables'' dans la formation de ''Germinal''

Les MISERABLES'' AND ITS ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF ''GERMINAL

• Auteur / Autrice : Nasreddine Khelil
• Direction : JEAN CLAUD FIZAINE
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Litt. et civilis. franç
• Date : Soutenance en 1986
• Etablissement(s) : Montpellier 3

Résumé

Emile zola a connu victor hugo pendant que celui-ci etait en exil. Admirateur du maitre de l'ecole romantique, il n'a pu comprendre sa theorie de progres,car il est eleve dans le climat du second empire ou toute perspective de progres est interdite. Mais emile zola se detache de son admiration envers victor hugo sous la commune en 1871 ou il condamne la maniere de victor hugo envisageant le peuple. Un desaccord qui aboutira a des consequences litteraires, le romantisme contre le positivisme, le probleme de l'histoire et enfin le probleme de la representation litteraire du peuple. Ainsi, emile zola ecrit germinal, le roman de la classe ouvriere. Dans la representation du peuple, cette oeuvre majeure d'emile zola fait apparaitre des differences fondamentales avec celle de victor hugo les miserables. Mais germinal en abordant une nouvelle fois la question sociale en 1885, n'est-il pas un hommage au maitre de l'ecole romantique mort cette meme annee ? il est vrai que la conception de la representation du peuple chez les deux romanciers est differente, mais il n'empeche que les miserables ont servi de cadre a l'imagination d'emile zola qui, malgre ses principes litteraires, a concu son oeuvre majeure a partir d'une mediation de l'oeuvre hugolienne.

Emile zola knew victor hug in his exile. An admirer of the romantic school master, e. Zola could not understand the theory of progress. He was brought up in the second empire climate where any progress perspective was banned. However emile zola broke away from his admiration of victor hugo under ''the commune'' in 1871. He blamed his attitude towards the mess. A disagreeament which led to litterary consequences: romanticism versus positivism, the problem of history and consequently that of the mass'litterary representation. This. Emile zola wrote ''germinal'' the novel of the working class. As far as the working class representation is concerned this major work compared with ''les miserables'' of victor hugo, displays fundamental differences. Yet ''germinal'' by tackling once again the social problem in 1885 wasn't it a tribute to the master of romanticism who died in that same year? it is true that each novelist bad his own conception of the mass' representation. That ''les miserables'' served as the framework of the imagination of emile zola inspire of his litterary principles is not excluded. After meditating on v. Hugo's book, e. Zola conceived his major work.