by Emile Zola · ISBN 9782253017141
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«Nana» is the novel by Émile Zola published by Elek Books in a French-language edition from 1959.
Set in the Paris of 1867, during the Universal Exposition, the novel follows Nana, a young actress and courtesan who uses her beauty to rise in the high society of the Second Empire. Her journey, marked by scandals, luxury and excess, serves Zola in portraying the hypocrisy and moral decay of an age.
The work is the ninth installment in the Les Rougon-Macquart cycle and was originally published in 1880.
For readers of classics and of nineteenth-century French literature interested in the social portrait of the era.
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse...! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
