Nana (Color Illustration Edition)

Author: (French) émile Zola
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Nana is one of the five most famous long novels in the 20 naturalist family history novels, The Rougon-Macquart Family, by the French literary giant and main advocate of naturalism, émile Zola. The novel depicts the rise and fall of a frivolous, extravagant, and wealthy young prostitute named Nana in her brief life, providing a detailed portrayal of the incredible debauchery and decadent customs of the French upper class during the Second Empire. It foreshadows the decline and fall of the Second Empire. On April 5, 1981, French newspaper Le Monde commented that in Nana, Zola "very realistically portrayed the tumultuous era of the 19th century, which has not lost its relevance to this day. The problems encountered by the characters he depicted are still the same ones we face today."