Nana (Oxford World's Classics)
ISBN-13:
9780198814269
ISBN-10:
0198814267
Edition:
2
Author:
Brian Nelson, Helen Constantine, Émile Zola
Publication date:
2020
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
Paperback
432 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780198814269
ISBN-10:
0198814267
Edition:
2
Author:
Brian Nelson, Helen Constantine, Émile Zola
Publication date:
2020
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
Paperback
432 pages
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Nana (Oxford World's Classics) (ISBN-13: 9780198814269 and ISBN-10: 0198814267), written by authors
Brian Nelson, Helen Constantine, Émile Zola, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.
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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 not so much as a result of the corruption of the Empire, as of rampant female sexuality.
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 not so much as a result of the corruption of the Empire, as of rampant female sexuality.
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