Nana (Penguin Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

Émile Zola

ISBN 10

0140442634

ISBN 13

9780140442632

Tags

Classics, Criticism & Theory, French, Literary

Description

Prompted by his theories of heredity and environment, Zola set out out to show Nana, "the golden fly," rising out of the underworld to feed on society--a predetermined product of her origins. Nana's latent destructiveness is mirrored in the Empire's, and they reflect each others' disintegration and final collapse in 1890.Built around the book's scientific skeleton is a powerful, sensual atmosphere and a rich use of words which elevate the novel beyond the realistic platform into a "poem of male desires." - from Amzon

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