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The author, one of the most important representatives of the naturalism movement, gained the life experience necessary for his novels during his difficult youth years. Zola argued that the novelist should not be content with recording events like a spectator, but should process emotional and social phenomena like a chemist, while putting people and their passions through a series of experiments. Germinal, which is about the strike of miners who refuse to compromise in Northern France, is considered among the most valuable works not only of Zola but also of French literature.