6/21/2023 0 Comments Nana by Émile ZolaNana is one of a sequence of 20 novels that constitute Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle. This edition includes a biographical afterword and follows the translation of Burton Rascoe. Nana, novel by Émile Zola, published in French in 1880. Though she advances through society, she ultimately only manages to fall from greater heights, taking on an almost mythical quality even as she remains eminently realistic. Dive into the story of Nana Coupeau, who rises from streetwalker to high-class prostitute. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart. What is surprising is Zola’s genius in creating the strength and generosity of Nana, the elemental goodness in an unintelligent woman who can’t seem to prevent herself from initiating chaos. Nana Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author mile Zola. Though apparently independent and self-confident in her role of ‘high-class cocette’, Nana envies the material possessions of the people around her, and the series of besotted men, and occasionally women, whom she betrays and ruins are a testament to her selfishness and vanity. A symbolically compounded novel, it follows the rise and fall of Nana, a street-walking prostitute who becomes an actress at the Théâtre des Variétés. Considered one of the masterpieces of world-renowned naturalist Emile Zola, “Nana” is his finely written work on the demimonde of France’s failing Second Empire.
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