![]() 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 is not so mucha result of the corruption of the Empire, as of rampant female sexuality. The novel opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan lite, was la Ville Lumire, the glittering setting-and object-of Zola's scathing denunciation of society's hypocrisy and moral corruption. Nana is the ninth instalment in the twenty volume Rougon-Macquart series. Nana - Novel by Emile Zola (1922 ) - PDF ebook person Adam Sharif August 15, 20212 minute read Nana, Novel by Emile Zola Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeaus rise from a streetwalker to a high-class prostitute during the last three years of the French Second Empire. Nana herself meets a terrible fate, consumed by her own dissipation and extravagance, just as the disastrous war with Prussia is declared. 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. '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. ![]()
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