Nana

by Émile Zola · 1880

Nana rises from the Paris stage to become one of the city's most sought-after courtesans, ruining a succession of lovers and husbands on her way to a horrifying end.

Books that mention Nana (2)

• The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “in Zola's Nana, when a horse race is depicted, we watch it from an outside perspective”
• Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “Émile Zola's gripping novel Nana (1880) evokes the rise, fall and early death of a sexy blonde teenager”