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Nana Volume 2

Author
Emile Zola
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
5 hours 58 minutes
ISBN
9781802562569
Published
12 January 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Emile Zola
  • Zola
  • Nana
  • naturalism
  • social order
  • realism
  • France
  • french
  • psychological
  • philosophical

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Description

In Émile Zola's "Nana," the captivating rise of a courtesan exposes the dazzling yet destructive high society of 19th-century Paris. Nana, with her irresistible charm and allure, ensnares wealthy patrons, wielding power over their fortunes and lives. Her story unfolds as a cautionary tale of excess and desire, illustrating the interplay between ambition and downfall. Zola's masterful naturalism paints a vivid portrayal of decadence, desire, and the unrelenting pursuit of pleasure.

Author

Emile Zola (1840–1902) grew up in Aix-en-Provence, failed his baccalaureat, and then mapped a France under pressure in the twenty novels of the Rougon-Macquart. L'Assommoir is drink and a Paris street; Germinal is the mine, the strike, the dark that works. He stood up for Dreyfus in J'Accuse...! and paid in exile. Naturalism was the method: heredity, milieu, a crowd that behaves like weather. The accusation is documentary.

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