Nana, A NOVEL By: Zola Emile (World's Classics)

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From 1877 with the publication of L'Assommoir, Émile Zola became wealthy, he was better paid than Victor Hugo, for example. He became a figurehead among the literary bourgeoisie and organized cultural dinners with Guy de Maupassant, Joris-Karl Huysmans and other writers at his luxurious villa in Medan near Paris after 1880. Germinal in 1885, then the three 'cities', Lourdes in 1894, Rome in 1896 and Paris in 1897, established Zola as a successful author. The next day, while Nana is making arrangements to receive her lovers, fans who had seen her the preceding evening begin to call upon her. Among the visitors are Count Muffat and his father-in-law, the Marquis de Chouard, who pretends to come to collect money for a charitable organization. Both men are visibly affected by the presence of Nana. A wealthy banker named Steiner also comes, and even though he has a reputation for spending fortunes on actresses, Nana refuses to see him. In 1862 Zola was naturalized as a French citizen. [13] In 1865, he met Éléonore-Alexandrine Meley, who called herself Gabrielle, a seamstress, who became his mistress. [11] They married on 31 May 1870. [14] Together they cared for Zola's mother. [12] She stayed with him all his life and was instrumental in promoting his work. The marriage remained childless. Alexandrine Zola had a child before she met Zola that she had given up, because she was unable to take care of it. When she confessed this to Zola after their marriage, they went looking for the girl, but she had died a short time after birth. In Zola there is the theorist and the writer, the poet, the scientist and the optimist – features that are basically joined in his own confession of positivism; [ citation needed] later in his life, when he saw his own position turning into an anachronism, he would still style himself with irony and sadness over the lost cause as "an old and rugged Positivist". [53] [54]

Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Newton, Joy (1967). "Émile Zola: impressionniste". Cahiers naturalistes (in French). Vol.33. pp.39–52. Nana egészen különleges antihős, akin csak ámultam, miközben szántam és megvetettem, néha mégis volt pillanat, amikor majdnem engem is az ujjai közé csavart… Literary gossip". The Week: A Canadian Journal of Politics, Literature, Science and Arts. 1 (4): 61. 27 December 1883 . Retrieved 23 April 2013. The case, known as the Dreyfus affair, deeply divided France between the reactionary army and Catholic Church on one hand, and the more liberal commercial society on the other. The ramifications continued for many years; on the 100th anniversary of Zola's article, France's Catholic daily paper, La Croix, apologised for its antisemitic editorials during the Dreyfus affair. [28] As Zola was a leading French thinker and public figure, his letter formed a major turning point in the affair. [ citation needed] Portrait of Zola by Nadar, 3 March 1898One morning while Muffat is still in the bedroom, Georges Hugon shows up unexpectedly. Nana, however, has lost all interest in him and views him only as an amusing friend. Georges comes to see Nana every day and talks constantly of his older brother, Lieutenant Philippe Hugon, whom he thinks his mother will send to rescue him from Nana's clutches. After some time, the older brother does appear; Nana sends word to have him wait a quarter of an hour before being shown into her presence. After a short visit, everything is settled satisfactorily. In the future, the older brother is to become a regular member of Nana's circle. Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred (1904). Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work. John Lane, the Bodley Head. p. 511. The optimist is that other face of the scientific experimenter, the man with an unshakable belief in human progress. [ citation needed] Zola bases his optimism on innéité and on the supposed capacity of the human race to make progress in a moral sense. Innéité is defined by Zola as that process in which " se confondent les caractères physiques et moraux des parents, sans que rien d'eux semble s'y retrouver"; [57] it is the term used in biology to describe the process whereby the moral and temperamental dispositions of some individuals are unaffected by the hereditary transmission of genetic characteristics. Jean Macquart and Pascal Rougon are two instances of individuals liberated from the blemishes of their ancestors by the operation of the process of innéité. [ citation needed] In popular culture [ edit ] Fauchery ​írása … egy fiatal lány története volt, aki alkoholisták negyedik-ötödik generációjából született, vérét megrontotta a nyomor és az ivás tartós örökletessége, mely benne a nőiség kóros túltengésébe csapott át. Egy külvárosban nőtt fel, a párizsi utcakövön; és nagyra, szépre, bujára nőve, mint a trágyadombon hajtatott növény, bosszút állt a koldusokért és az elhagyatottakért, akiktől származott. … Természeti erő lett belőle, a pusztítás kovásza…” Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members. See below.

Manet, who was much taken with the description of the "precociously immoral" Nana in Zola's L'Assommoir gave the title "Nana" to his portrait of Henriette Hauser before Nana was published. [5] [ failed verification] While attending the Italian Theater one evening, Fontan is charmed by a new actress in the troupe. Nana ridicules the actress and that night a quarrel ensues. After Nana complains about some cake crumbs in the bed and tries for the second time to get out, Fontan slaps her so hard that she feels dazed. At first Nana resents this brutality, but after a few minutes, she even respects him for treating her in such a manner. Swardson, Anne (14 January 1998). "The Dreyfus Affair's Living History". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 7 September 2022 . Retrieved 7 September 2022. Because of Zola's article, ... the intellectual class was accorded the status it still holds as molder of public opinion. World News Briefs; French Paper Apologizes For Slurs on Dreyfus". The New York Times. Reuters. 13 January 1998 . Retrieved 25 March 2018.a b c d e Marzials, Frank Thomas (1911). "Zola, Émile Édouard Charles Antoine". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.28 (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. p.1001. At first the audience laughs until a young boy, Georges Hugon, cries out, "She's wonderful." From then until the end of the play, Nana is in control of the audience, especially during the final act when she appears on the stage virtually naked. Bordenave, the producer of the play, meets the two young men and embarrasses the naive la Faloise by insisting that the theater be called a whorehouse. He describes his new actress Nana, as a cheap whore "who sings like a crow" and "has no notion what to do with her hands and feet." However, he is confident that both Nana and the show will be a success because "Nana has something else, something as good as all the other things put together." Cummins, Anthony (5 December 2015). "How Émile Zola made novels out of gutter voices and ultra-violence". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 3 November 2016.