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Emile Zola
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In the waning years of the French Second Empire, French prostitute Nana Coupeau rises from the streets to the heights of clandestine French society by virtue of her performance as the lead in La blonde Venus, a fictional operetta. While her performance is terrible, her sexual appeal and magnetism win over the audience and she becomes famous overnight. Author Émile Zola based the character of Nana on stories he heard about the operetta star Anna Judic. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau’s rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. Nana first appears in the end of L’Assommoir (1877), another of Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, in which she is portrayed as the daughter of an abusive drunk; in the end, she is living in the streets and just beginning a life of prostitution.

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We first meet Nana in the Variety Theatre, where the captivating eighteen-year-old is appearing in the lead role of a musical—even though she can’t act or sing. “Nana has something that makes up for everything else,” the theater owner explains, and he’s right. Instead of booing her off the stage, the crowd howls with admiration. She has disrobed by the third act, and her career as a femme fatale is off to a sensational start. Nana crawls out of the gutter to ascend the heights of Parisian society, devouring men and squandering fortunes along the way. Zola begins the story of French realism’s most beguiling siren in 1867, amid the decadence and moral decay of France’s Gilded Age. Nana’s corruption reflects the spirit of her era, her prostitution symbolizing the degenerate state of Second Empire politics and society. Hailed as one of the first modern novels, Nana addresses contemporary subjects with realistic observations, dialogue, and scenarios. Its publication sparked a heated controversy that made it an overnight bestseller, and it has long since reigned as a classic of French literature.

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Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau’s rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. Nana first appears in the end of L’Assommoir (1877), another of Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, in which she is portrayed as the daughter of an abusive drunk; in the end, she is living in the streets and just beginning a life of prostitution.

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Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau’s rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. Nana first appears in the end of L’Assommoir (1877), another of Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, in which she is portrayed as the daughter of an abusive drunk; in the end, she is living in the streets and just beginning a life of prostitution.

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Edition enrichie (Préface, notes, dossier sur l’oeuvre, chronologie et bibliographie) Dans les dernières années du Second Empire, quand Nana joue le rôle de Vénus au Théâtre des Variétés, son succès tient moins à son bien médiocre talent d’actrice qu’à la séduction de son corps nu, voilé d’une simple gaze. Elle aimante sur scène tous les regards comme elle attire chez elle tous les hommes : tentatrice solaire qui use de ses charmes pour mener une vie de luxure et de luxe, de paresse et de dépense. Quand le livre paraît au début de 1880, Flaubert confie son admiration à Zola qui a su faire que « Nana tourne au mythe sans cesser d’être réelle ». Grâce à elle, c’est tout un monde que le romancier parvient à évoquer, toute une époque et tout un style de vie. Par la peinture de cet univers de plaisirs, il fustige les vices d’une société corrompue, et ce neuvième volume des Rougon-Macquart est une satire cinglante des hautes sphères perverties par une fête qui ruine le peuple et détruit les valeurs. Et l’Empire bientôt va sombrer. Edition d’Auguste Dezalay.  

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