Nana

About this film

LibriVox recording of Nana by Émile Zola. (Translated by Burton Rascoe.) Read in English by Celine Major. Excerpt from Introduction: "Nana" stands third in popularity among the Zola novels. It is a study of the prostitute type and it gives a memorable picture of the life of the tinsel underworld of the Paris theaters, night life, and its parasites. Perhaps Zola pursues Nana a bit too relentlessly: certainly his putting a period to her career by showing her as a putrefying corpse is more symbolic than is wholly necessary; but it remains a novel of truth and beauty, even if a beauty of a drab and often terrible sort. BURTON RASCOE - Summary by Celine Major For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook 01-14 (220MB) M4B Audiobook 15-28 (221MB)

Directors & creators

Émile Zola

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;Historical Fiction; France; Les Rougon-Macquart; théâtre des variétés

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