- Paperback: 270 pages
- Publisher: Digireads.com (January 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1420933663
- ISBN-13: 978-1420933666
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
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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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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Not So Much!!!, April 18 2012
By Roberta J. Salamon - Published on Amazon.com
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Have been able to really get into it but am holding on and will keep getting back to it. Must have something that I have missed to have been around this long.Meant to say HAVE NOT been able to really get into it. Too fast on the keys. Maybe I should slow up when I am reading. lol
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The dark side of human nature- a cunning and duplicitous strumpet gone awry, Feb 7 2007
By Brian D. Fitzpatrick - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Nana (Paperback)
Emile (Edouard-Charles-Antoine)Zola(born- April 2,Paris-died Sep 28,1902
French Novelest and critic
Nana is part of Zola's very ambitious project,the LES ROUGON-MAQUART series which he is best known for.A sequence of 20 novels that documents French life through the violent Rouqons and the passive Maquarts.Zola is the founder of the application of naturalism in literature.
"...In literature,NATURALISM extended the traditional concepts of REALISM,aiming at and inspired by the principles and methods of natural science,especially DARWINISM,whose principles were adapted to literature and art.In literature,NATURALISM extended the traditional REALISM,aiming at an even more faithful,pseudoscientific representation of reality,
presented without moral judgment of character.Character was based upon heredity and the role that environment played in human life.Zola the spokesman for literary naturalism, was also the first to champion his findings to EDOUARD MANET (which subesquently led to the Impressionists movement)..." (from Columbia Encylopedia-excerts from a profile of Emile Zola)
Nana is a fascinating read.But be prepared for the unsavory genuis of her personality,most notably with men.It was as though it was her first and foremost duty to extract all the benefits of her 'victims', those who she got involved with,and in turn after extracting all the coffer,would execute her insidious and capricious style to ultimately ruin lives,and humiliate and pepper her 'victims' with a bizzare facade of false sentiments that shaded her core ingeniously with a vicious and gratutious hostility.Mind you,this is only one of the multiple themes that are generated throughout this novel.It's frankly, a character profile of a rather nasty 'she-devil'.If you didn't 'catch wind' of her intentions in the early stages,without a thick skin in your commesirations with this 'madame',your were 'toast',quickly succuming to her vitriolic behaviour and a multiple assortment of agendas,and it was no 'picnic in the park'.It is brilliantly written,Zola was a remarkable observer of people.He brings you right into the innards of the human psyche.
I also would highly recommend THE EARTH,THE BELLY OF PARIS,LA BETTE HUMAINE,L'ASSOMMOIR(a study of alcholism),and GERMINAL,\.
Enjoy.Health and Happiness.
Brian Fitzpatrick
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