George Sand y La Ville Noireuna parábola del mundo obrero con rostro de mujer

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze George Sand�s view about the challenges and changes that, in her time, the industrialization process resulted in the daily life of the workers. Although traditionally Zola has been considered as the literary discoverer of the mining world, twenty years before her contemporary, Sand was interested by the harsh conditions in which the collective of workers lived during the nineteenth-century. We introduce a comparison between the style and the arguments of both authors to highlight the special features of the female vision in her positive assessment of the workers situation. We will also focus on the the novelist�s effort to describe a moral model embodied in the female figure of Tonine. The goal of this models was to achieve an egalitarian community based on the equitable distribution of goods procured by the progress.