Voyage(s) au bout de la mine chez Émile Zola et Fernando Namora

Abstract

This article proposes a comparative study between two journey(s) to the depths of the mine, with an analysis of Germinal (1885) by French writer Émile Zola (1840-1902) and Minas de San Francisco (1946) by Portuguese writer Fernando Namora (1919-1989) whose 100th anniversary of his birth was just celebrated in 2019. This article will analyze the journey to the center of the Earth and the Human from the topography of the mine and its ideological implications, of which both novels voice in very different ways.

Keywords

• travel
• Zola (Émile)
• mines
• ideology
• Namora (Fernando)