tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post5472698263329596166..comments2024-03-29T11:56:50.983+00:00Comments on A K Haart: NanaA K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-9760625725246196252012-05-21T14:19:03.321+01:002012-05-21T14:19:03.321+01:00Mac - thanks, I'll try 'La Curee' and ...Mac - thanks, I'll try 'La Curee' and see if I can read the novels in the right order.<br /><br />Roger - giving up on Proust isn't necessarily a bad idea. I'm pleased to have read him, but only just. It's very marginal.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-76120288820322809152012-05-21T14:06:59.221+01:002012-05-21T14:06:59.221+01:00I like Zola and de Maupassant for their vigour and...I like Zola and de Maupassant for their vigour and humanity, you can practically smell the sex, sweat, scent, flowers, snobbery and slop buckets. Nana reminds me of my aunt's comment 'that girl is sitting on her fortune' - took me a while to discover what she meant, a child earwigging on adults.<br /><br />Before my reading light goes out forever I must try Proust one more time, I have given up three times nowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-4599517129231048472012-05-21T08:44:58.424+01:002012-05-21T08:44:58.424+01:00A masterful summing-up!
For me, one particularly ...A masterful summing-up!<br /><br />For me, one particularly ingenious plot device is the journalist, whose articles provide the initial plot catalyst and allow Zola to comment indirectly on Nana's career and corrupting influence.<br /><br />For more Parisian decadence, try 'La Curee' - I think it translates as 'The Kill' - but I also recommend a quick detour back to the first novels of the series to see the origins of the inherited traits manifested by Zola's characters.<br /><br />I'm happpy you found it a good read!Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.com