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Souvarine

Mechanic, nihilist revolutionary

The Russian nihilist in Germinal — one of literature's great portraits of the anarchist revolutionary. He has loved a woman executed in Russia and nothing has meaning for him since. Cold, intelligent, absolute, he ultimately sabotages the Voreux mine's pumps, causing the catastrophic flooding that kills dozens. He walks away afterwards into the darkness without a backward glance.
Slight, fair, almost girlishly handsome, with the pale, steady eyes of a man who has decided that nothing in the world has value.

Appears In

Germinal major

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Generation
IV