Nana

'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. 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. Nana herself meets a terrible fate, consumed by her own dissipation and extravagance, just as the disastrous war with Prussia is declared. Nana is the ninth instalment in the twenty volume Rougon-Macquart series. The novel opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan élite, was la Ville Lumière, the glittering setting-and object-of Zola's scathing denunciation of society's hypocrisy and moral corruption. 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 much a result of the corruption of the Empire, as of rampant female sexuality.

'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. 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. Nana herself meets a terrible fate, consumed by her own dissipation and extravagance, just as the disastrous war with Prussia is declared. Nana is the ninth instalment in the twenty volume Rougon-Macquart series. The novel opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan élite, was la Ville Lumière, the glittering setting-and object-of Zola's scathing denunciation of society's hypocrisy and moral corruption. 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 much a result of the corruption of the Empire, as of rampant female sexuality.

Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Théâtre des Variétés. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes and Marquises fall at her feet, great ladies try to emulate her appearance, lovers even kill themselves for her. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Nana provoked outrage on its publication in 1880, with its heroine damned as 'the most crude and bestial sort of whore', yes the language of the novel makes Nana almost a mythical figure: a destructive force preying on a corrupt society.

Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Théâtre des Variétés. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes and Marquises fall at her feet, great ladies try to emulate her appearance, lovers even kill themselves for her. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Nana provoked outrage on its publication in 1880, with its heroine damned as 'the most crude and bestial sort of whore', yes the language of the novel makes Nana almost a mythical figure: a destructive force preying on a corrupt society.

Nana est l'une des oeuvres les plus repr sentatives de l' crivain Emile Zola, auteur fran ais du naturaliste du XIXe si cle et p re du plus grand exposant de ce mouvement. Nana a t publi en 1880. L'histoire commence en 1868 et d peint deux cat gories sociales symboliques, celles des courtisanes et celles des noceurs. Zola, chef de file du mouvement naturaliste, montre la soci t telle qu'elle tait mais choisit aussi ce sujet scandaleux car il fait vendre, 55 000 exemplaires du texte de Charpentier tant vendus d s le premier jour de sa publication. Le personnage de Nana a surtout t inspir Zola par Blanche D'Antigny.

Nana est l'une des oeuvres les plus repr sentatives de l' crivain Emile Zola, auteur fran ais du naturaliste du XIXe si cle et p re du plus grand exposant de ce mouvement. Nana a t publi en 1880. L'histoire commence en 1868 et d peint deux cat gories sociales symboliques, celles des courtisanes et celles des noceurs. Zola, chef de file du mouvement naturaliste, montre la soci t telle qu'elle tait mais choisit aussi ce sujet scandaleux car il fait vendre, 55 000 exemplaires du texte de Charpentier tant vendus d s le premier jour de sa publication. Le personnage de Nana a surtout t inspir Zola par Blanche D'Antigny.

Før han begyndte at skrive Nana, vidste Zola intet om Théâtre des Variétés i Paris. Dramatikeren Ludovic Halévy inviterede ham til at deltage i en operette med ham dér den 15. februar 1878 og tog ham bag scenen. Halévy fortalte ham utallige historier om det amorøse liv for stjernen Anna Judic, hvis ménage à trois fungerede som model for forholdene til Rose Mignon, hendes mand og Steiner i Zolas roman. Halévy forsynede også Zola med historier om berømte prostituerede som Blanche d'Antigny, Anna Deslions, Delphine de Lizy og Hortense Schneider, som Zola trak på, da han skabte sin titelkarakter, Nana.

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