Nana

Name: Nana
Author: Emile Zola
ISBN: 9781909904897

Author: Emile Zola
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 420 pages
ISBN: 9781909904897
Published: 15 November 2013
Imprint: Sovereign

Emile Zola
Zola
Nana
naturalism
social order
realism
France
french
psychological
philosophical

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Description

Nana, by Emile Zola, is a gripping exploration of the corrupting influence of power and wealth in late 19th-century France. The story revolves around Nana, a charismatic and ambitious woman who manipulates society's elite for her own gain. Zola's vivid portrayal of Parisian high society, political intrigue, and moral decay is on full display as Nana navigates her way through the city's power structures. The novel offers a critical examination of the societal ills and the destructive consequences of unchecked ambition.

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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