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Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan élite, was la Ville Lumière, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siècle moral corruption. The fate of Nana, the Helen of Troy of the Second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir, reduced Flaubert to almost inarticulate gasps of admiration: `Chapter 14, unsurpassable! ... Yes! ... Christ Almighty! ... Incomparable ... Straight out of Babylon!' Boulevard society is presented with painstaking attention to detail, and Zola's documentation of the contemporary theatrical scene comes directly from his own experience - it was his own failure as a playwright which sent him back to novel-writing and Nana itself. novel-writing and Nana itself. This new translation is an accurate and stylish rendering of Zola's original, which was first published in 1880.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This translation does a great job of making this classic novel as punchy, sassy and sensational as it would have seemed when it was first published. Far from being a 'safe' translation, this one is a work of art in its own right; the language is vibrant and evocative, and brings the novel to life in a way that doesn't always happen in translation. I'd recommend it as a text in itself, however familiar you may be with the original French (and particularly if your only experience of Nana is through other translations). If you're unfamiliar with Zola's work, too, this is a great and accessible introduction to one of his seminal pieces; the language is at once fresh and immediate, whilst staying true to Zola's naturalism, and his more general novelistic knack for describing the France of his day.
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One of Zola's best books, The story of Nana's rise and fall is very moving, even if the writer is a a 19 century French existentialist, and also very shocking, after all it is the story of an actress/prostitute,
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Having read one of Zola's other books 'Germinal' i was really hoping for another great read here. while the authors wonderful writing style which is incredible detailed in its descriptions and also witty in the metaphors he uses the story itself was hard for me to appeal to yet in time it did get interesting and i was glad i finished it. the book is, frankly speaking, about a tart. a french actress who has no talent in the plays she does yet that doesn't matter because she has something else. she is captivatingly beautiful and just about all of france is after her. shes a prostitute yet a refined one at that and through the story she gos from one aristocratic lover to the next draining them all of money and leaving then destitute. since she had slum beginnings the book largely represents the revenge of the poor on the rich as high up well respected men are driven to ruin by there obsession with Nana whos charm proves irresistible to all. its a book on debautury and decadence with the whole theme being a society lining up for sex yet that is what makes it real as it presents society in all its truth, it makes me think how little has changed since then.
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