Nana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19979237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emile Zola (corresponding author) |
| Editors | Brian Nelson (0000-0001-9981-5813) |
| Translators | Helen Constantine |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 432 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Nana (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/owc/9780198814269.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4252982551 |
| Open Library | OL29255489M |
| ISBN | 9780198814269 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
‘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
Ancient history · Art · Denunciation · Empire · Hypocrisy · Literature · Lust · Political science · Politics · Spell · Theology · Decadence, Literature, and Society · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Fiction · Prostitutes · Romance literature · Social conditions
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |