{"product_id":"nana-paperback-5","title":"Nana - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eÉmile Zola\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHelen Constantine\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eBrian Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNana, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNana 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 elite, was \u003cem\u003ela Ville Lumiere\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eÉmile Zola\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelen Constantine \u003c\/strong\u003etaught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. Her volumes of translated stories, \u003cem\u003eParis Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eParis Metro Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eParis Street Tales\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFrench Tales\u003c\/em\u003e are published by Oxford University Press. She is also the general editor of a series of 'City Tales' for OUP. Her translations include \u003cem\u003eMademoiselle de Maupin\u003c\/em\u003e by Theophile Gautier (Penguin), \u003cem\u003eDangerous Liaisons\u003c\/em\u003e by Choderlos de Laclos (Penguin), \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Ass's Skin\u003c\/em\u003e by Balzac, \u003cem\u003eThe Conquest of Plassans\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Love Story\u003c\/em\u003e by Zola and Flaubert's \u003cem\u003eSentimental Education\u003c\/em\u003e, all for the Oxford World's Classics. She formerly co-edited the magazine \u003cem\u003eModern Poetry in Translation \u003c\/em\u003ewith her husband, the writer David Constantine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrian Nelson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Emeritus Professor (French Studies and Translation Studies) at Monash University, Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His publications include \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Introduction to French Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Zola\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eZola and the Bourgeoisie\u003c\/em\u003e, and translations of Zola's \u003cem\u003eHis Excellency Eugene Rougon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEarth\u003c\/em\u003e (with Julie Rose), \u003cem\u003eThe Fortune of the Rougons\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Belly of Paris\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Kill\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePot Luck\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Ladies' Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e for the Oxford World's Classics. He has also translated \u003cem\u003eSwann in Love\u003c\/em\u003e by Marcel Proust for the series. He was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Translation in 2015.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.6 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729826385983,"sku":"9780198814269","price":16.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ce05cd991b37aede93db9fe233fe2279.webp?v=1765123755","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/nana-paperback-5","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}