Nana

Author(s): Emile Zola

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'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.'


 


Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men who fall under her spell -- especially Count Muffat, Chamberlain to the Empress. Nana herself meets a terrible fate, consumed by her own dissipation and extravagance, just as the disastrous war with Prussia is declared.


 


Nana is the ninth instalment in the twenty volume Rougon-Macquart series. The novel opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was la Ville Lumiere, the glittering setting-and object-of Zola's scathing denunciation of society's hypocrisy and moral corruption. Nana comes to symbolize the Second Empire regime itself in all its excesses; but in the final chapters, the narrator seems to suggest that the coming disaster is not so much a result of the corruption of the Empire, as of rampant female sexuality.

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General Fields

  • : 9780198814269
  • : Oxford University Press
  • : Oxford University Press
  • : 0.304
  • : 01 March 2020
  • : 1 Inches X 7.7 Inches X 5 Inches
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 432
  • : 2003
  • : Paperback
  • : Emile Zola