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Nana (selected Translations of Famous Works)
General Fiction娜娜（译文名著精选）
(french) Emile Zola
The heroine Nana in the novel was spotted by the entertainment theater manager, and her starring role in "Venus Blonde" was a success. The men of Paris's upper class fell under her skirt. She was successively supported by the banker Steine and the Queen's attendant Count Miffat. She became a popular socialite in Paris, eating up the money of the men who pursued her, making them bankrupt one by one. Some even died in hell. She eventually died of smallpox, just as the Second Empire was about to collapse in the Franco-Prussian War. The rise and fall of Nana's life became a portrayal of the corrupt and degenerate society of the Second Empire.
The heroine Nana in the novel was spotted by the entertainment theater manager, and her starring role in "Venus Blonde" was a success. The men of Paris's upper class fell under her skirt. She was successively supported by the banker Steine and the Queen's attendant Count Miffat. She became a popular socialite in Paris, eating up the money of the men who pursued her, making them bankrupt one by one. Some even died in hell. She eventually died of smallpox, just as the Second Empire was about to collapse in the Franco-Prussian War. The rise and fall of Nana's life became a portrayal of the corrupt and degenerate society of the Second Empire.