Nana

Name: Nana
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ISBN: 9780199538690

ISBN-10: 0199538697

ISBN-13: 9780199538690

Edition: 2009

Authors: ï¿½mile Zola, Douglas Parmï¿½e, Douglas Parmï¿½e

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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…

Book details

List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 7.70" wide x 5.10" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English