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Nana
Nana | Emile Zola
17 posts | 21 read | 21 to read
Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author mile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series. Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. The novel opens with a night at the Thtre des Varits. Nana is 15 years old. Zola describes in detail the performance of La blonde Vnus, a fictional operetta modelled after Offenbach's La belle Hlne, in which Nana is cast as the lead. She has never been seen on a stage, but tout Paris is talking about her. When asked to say something about her talents, Bordenave, the manager of the theatre, explains that a star doesn't have to know how to sing or act. Just as the crowd is about to dismiss her performance as terrible, young Georges Hugon shouts: "Trs chic!" From then on, she owns the audience. The novel then goes on to show how Nana destroys every man who pursues her.
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Liz_M
Nana | Emile Zola
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Weekly Report

I finally acquired a complete copy and therefore finished Celestial Harmonies. I also read W Or the Memory of Childhood and Tentacle. I've started Nana and am closer to resuming The Rainbow.

BarbaraBB Cool photo again! Are you almost reaching 1001?? 2y
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TalesandTexts
Nana | Emile Zola
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Spending time with Nana, immersing myself in her exciting life, along with my friend, dear Ms. Vodka.

Aren‘t cocktails and chronicles of interesting characters the very best combination?🥂

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SolaRaynor
Nana | Emile Zola
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An old Random House - Modern Library edition of Emile Zola's “Nana“. Originally published in 1880, the story describes interactions between the Parisian demimonde and upper classes.

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JenniferP
Nana | Emile Zola
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First book of the year. As always, I love Zola‘s writing - no one depicts characters and events more vividly - but this book about a prostitute who decimates the lives and fortunes of every man she comes in contact with was a bit less complex than some of his other books I‘ve read. Still awesome but start with Germinal.

BarbaraBB I still need to read Germinal but I loved 5y
JenniferP @BarbaraBB and I need to read Therese Raquin! I have it on my shelf - maybe later this year! Germinal is amazing. 5y
Liz_M 😂and I've read T.R. and Germinal, but need to get to Nana. 5y
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JenniferP
Nana | Emile Zola
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Enjoying a couple more days of vacation!

BarbaraBB Looking forward to what you think of it. I bailed on this one. 5y
Liz_M 😱@BarbaraBB You bailed on Zola?! 😲 (edited) 5y
BarbaraBB @Liz_M Yes... ☺️ while I loved (edited) 5y
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Skygoddess1
Nana | Emile Zola
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Today, members of my family gathered in Madera, CA to celebrate my grandmother‘s 90th birthday. We threw her a surprise party, thankfully nobody spoiled it. This is a photo of my Nana with the grandkids and one great-grandkid who were able to make it.

Cinfhen Happy birthday!!! So lovely to all be there to celebrate ❤️ 6y
LiteraryinPA What a great occasion! 6y
TrishB Lovely 💜 6y
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Skygoddess1
Nana | Emile Zola
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Today, members of my family gathered in Madera, CA to celebrate my grandmother‘s 90th birthday. We threw her a surprise party, thankfully nobody spoiled it. This is a photo of my Nana with the grandkids and one great-grandkid who were able to make it.

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SAFinlay
Nana | Emile Zola
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‘A whole society rushing to get sex‘ - move over 50 shades... :)

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Wilkie
Nana | Emile Zola
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Equal opportunity promiscuity. Augie and Nana. #promiscuous #heatofjuly

Cinfhen I‘m loving the retro covers ‼️ 6y
emilyhaldi 😂 6y
LeahBergen Awesome! 👏🏻👏🏻 6y
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bookandbedandtea
Nana | Emile Zola
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Being a Nana, and reading to my grandbaby, is my favorite thing ever! 😍💕

BookNerd9906 Aww❤️❤️❤️ 7y
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Sarah83
Nana | Emile Zola
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Alisnazzy
Nana | Emile Zola
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@Lynnsoprano is being the most awesome nana to kitty granddaughter and human granddaughter. She‘s not getting much reading done though 😂 #HappyThanksgiving (dad is just focused on the TV 😂😂😂)

EchoLogical 😍 7y
[DELETED] 3803335244 So adorable 7y
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Lcsmcat
Nana | Emile Zola
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The Modern Library manages to be classy even with #nakedspines. #autumnreads @Tiffy_Reads

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BarbaraBB
Nana | Emile Zola
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Bailedbailed

Boring. Way too many people living their decadent lives in 19th century Paris. I wasn't interested in one of them. Read diagonally, impatient... So maybe I missed why this book is so famous. #1001books

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Astroneman
Nana | Emile Zola
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"... A society that welcomes in its bosom, elbow to elbow, big names and big scandals, pushed by the same thirst of enjoyment".
Nana' welcomes in his arms all the Parisian society, and with a vigorous hug crushes, reduces it to dust. Yet no one can do without that Venus, bursting spoiled little girl, who wants everything and everything destroyed. An existence of whims and obsessions, kisses and caresses, slaps and kicks, life and death.

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Anabnieto
Nana | Emile Zola
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#bookstack one of my fav corners of the apartment. Some of them not yet read. How many worlds!!!

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