Status Updates From Nana (Les Rougon-Macquart, #9)

RIP nana if you were alive in 2026 you would’ve loved ghosting men, having a roster, feminism, and BDSM…

Ch 11: Atp I'm really not sure how Nana's imminent downfall will begin. If what happened to the mare Nana, is a foreshadowing of sorts then now is very much the time she should go up in flames. But the count is so besotted and weak and even beside him she has no lack of lovers and suitors, so I am at a loss to understand what could go wrong, like immediately

Ch 10: She reverted to childish pastimes, covered Bijou with kisses from morning to night, killed time with stupid pursuits, waiting, but only ever for a man, to whom she submitted with weary complaisance. And in the middle of that self-abandonment, her only concern was the way she looked.
Quite scathing. Nana can't get satisfaction from love or money alone and they won't be coming in a pair together.

Ch 9: "I bet you a hundred louis that all those people laughing tonight, I’ll have them worshipping the ground I tread on! Yes, I’ll show your Paris what a fine lady I am!"

Ch 8: Nana is so inflammable, hypocritical, childish and mercurial. She's the darling of a world made just for someone like her. Also all of Nana's lovers are irrelevant so that's nice.