Germinie Lacerteux

Germinie Lacerteux by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

The Goncourt brothers’ naturalist novel about the miserable life of a maid and her aloof employer.  Germinie talks in her sleep, expelling rage and sorrow in a somniloquy that the brothers allegedly based upon the real-life ramblings of a sleeping lover.

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(English)  Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de.  Germinie Lacerteux.  Trans.  Leonard Tancock.  Penguin, 1984.    

(French)  Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. Germinie Lacerteux. Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1968.