


Sloppy, living among untidiness and filth, spending days in supernatural idleness, Nana looked like a truly luxurious animal and as such was equally attractive to tabloid journalist Fauchery, banker Steiner, half-secular lions Vandevre and La Faloise, an aristocrat of Count Muffat. This call brought all the men of the city to her feet, and she did not know how to refuse anyone, for she had sentimental haberdashery ideas about love, debauchery ceased to be a novelty to her almost from the age of fourteen, and lovers' money was the only source of her existence. Everyone has been talking about Nana for a week now - this fat girl, who could not turn around on stage, had a creaky voice, devoid of any grace, conquered the hall from her first appearance on the stage: not with talent, of course, but with the crazy call of flesh that emanated from her. She made her debut at the Bordnava Theater "Variety", where the whole secular, literary and theatrical Paris gathered for the premiere of the parody operetta about the triumph of Venus over the cuckolds.

In the room where Nana was decomposing, whose beautiful, maddening face turned into a festering mask, every now and then there was a cry: “To Berlin! To Berlin! To Berlin! " In addition, a war with the Prussians was imminent. However, her lovers were quickly comforted. French literature summaries - 2021 Short summary - Nana Émile ZolaĪnne Coupeau, nicknamed Nana, the daughter of a drunken washerwoman Gervaise Macquart and a crippled worker Coupeau, died in Paris in 1870 at the age of eighteen from smallpox, outliving her two-year-old son for several days and leaving several dozen of her lovers in grief.
