Nana (Garnier-Flammarion)

by EmileZola (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $7.07

  This new translation is an accurate and stylish rendering of Zola's original, which was first published in 1880. This book is intended for students of French literature, the European novel, comparative literature; French nineteenth-century history. Translated with an introduction by: Parmee, Douglas (retired Fellow, Queen's College, Cambridge);

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  1973

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  Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes and Marquises fall at her feet, great ladies try to emulate her appearance, lovers even kill themselves for her. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Nana provoked outrage on its publication in 1880, with its heroine damned as 'the most crude and bestial sort of whore', yes the language of the novel makes Nana almost a mythical figure: a destructive force preying on a corrupt society.