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Published byPenguin Classics, 1982, softcover, 470 pages, condition: very good.
Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth instalment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series.
In 1878, Ludovic Halévy took Zola to an operetta and told him innumerable stories about the amorous life of the star, Anna Judic, whose ménage à trois served as the model for the relationships of Rose Mignon, her husband, and Steiner in Zola's novel. Halévy also provided Zola with stories about famous p*********s such as Blanche d'Antigny, Anna Deslions, Delphine de Lizy, and Hortense Schneider, upon which Zola drew in developing the character of his title character. Yet it was Valtesse de la Bigne, painted by both Manet and Henri Gervex, who most inspired him; it is she who is immortalised in his scandalous novel Nana.
The novel was an immediate success. "Le Voltaire", the French newspaper that was planning to publish it in installments launched a advertising campaign, raising the curiosity of the reading public to a fever pitch. When Charpentier finally published Nana in book form in February 1880, the first edition of 55,000 copies was sold out in one day. Flaubert and Edmond de Goncourt were full of praise for Nana. Flaubert wrote Zola an effusive letter praising the novel in detail.
On the other hand, a part of the public and some critics reacted to the book with outrage, which may have contributed to its popularity.
