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Not surprisingly, Nana’s portrait of a decadent world in which a prostitute amasses great wealth and power provoked protests from “polite society,” and it became one of Zola’s most controversial works. Today it is regarded as his masterpiece.
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts and coeditor, with Melissa Holbrook Pierson, of O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors.
427 pages, ebook
First published February 1, 1880




“El amor es la respuesta, pero mientras esperas la respuesta, el sexo plantea algunas preguntas bastante interesantes”. Woody AllenPodrán decirme que no es muy pertinente empezar con humor unos comentarios a una novela de Zola, sé que no es su punto fuerte, pero lo que no podrán echarme en cara es que no haya introducido un poquito de polémica entre ellos, dado lo acostumbrados que tenía el autor a sus lectores a tales pormenores.

















The trouble was not cruelty on her part, for she remained as good-natured as ever; it was as if a wind of madness were blowing ever more strongly through the closed bedroom. Lust deranged their brains and plunged them into the delirious fantasies of the flesh. The old pious terrors of their sleepless nights now turned into a thirst for bestiality, a mania for walking on all fours, growling and biting.