Description
An orphaned country girl arrives in Paris with little more than hope—and a temperament that makes her especially vulnerable to the city’s temptations. As her life unfolds, Germinie’s choices and circumstances collide in a relentless descent marked by desire, exploitation, and the fragile boundaries between longing and ruin. Blending social observation with psychological intensity, the novel exposes how poverty, class power, and moral judgment can shape a person’s fate as surely as any personal flaw. Written in the distinctive, sharply observant style associated with the Goncourt brothers, this haunting tragedy remains a powerful study of human nature, vulnerability, and the cost of being seen only through society’s harshest lenses.
Available Editions
paperback
Independently Published
Published Jan 1, 2019
219 pages
ISBN: 9781093913019
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Details
First Published
1865
Language
fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Germinie Lacerteux by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt.