Who knows if Nana is a man or a woman? What's the hurry?

Nana is the ninth work of the Lugong-Markard family created by Zola. As early as writing "Inn", Zola had the idea of shaping Nana. Nana began to be serialized in Voltaire on 1879 10/0/5, and was completed on February 5, 880. After it was published in 1880, its sales volume was unprecedented, and then it was reprinted ten times in a row.

The heroine Nana is the daughter of a young zinc worker Bo Gu and a washerwoman Elvis. Her name is Anna Bo Gu, 1852. Her name was Nana when she was born. At the age of fifteen, she wandered the streets and became a first-class prostitute. At the age of eighteen, he was attracted by Bordenave, the owner of the entertainment theater of the inferior theater, and was put on the stage by him, starring in the obscene opera Goldilocks. But she has no artistic talent, her voice is like a broken gong, and she doesn't even know how to put her hands and feet on the stage, so Bordenave made her naked to attract sluts and lechers in the upper class. From his reply to the screenwriter Focelli, we can see his motivation: "Does a woman have to be able to perform and sing?" Ah! My little brother, you are so pedantic ... Nana has other strengths, it's true! This advantage is worth any advantage ... just wait and see, as long as she appears, the audience will be salivating. "Nana's nude performance really fascinated the audience and immediately caused a sensation in Paris. The next day, the upper-class lecherous swarmed in. While mixing with these gentlemen, she kept going out for prostitution, and the old lady Ratrigon often came to pimp her. She began to fall in love with the playboy Dagene who spent 300,000 francs on women. She went bankrupt in the stock market and didn't even have money to buy flowers for Nana. Soon, she turned her attention to the banker Steiner. She got his support and lived in the suburban villa "Zangjiao Building" he bought for her. There, she received the noble master George Gong Yu and the royal retinue Count Muffat. After Steiner went bankrupt, she turned to Count Muffat for help. At the same time, she fell in love with the clown actor Feng Tang. Soon, she married Feng Tang, lived a normal family life, and drove Count Muffat out of the house. But it didn't last long. Feng Tang is a figure of ABBA formula. He didn't take out a penny in his life, but also got back the 7 thousand francs he had collected at the beginning, and often abused and beat Nana. Soon, Feng Tang fell in love with an actress in the Italian Opera House and became her lover. Nana was kicked out of the house and had to become a prostitute again. Later, through the matchmaking of others, Nana resumed her relationship with Mufa, and all the expenses were provided by Mufa. Like a queen, she lived a luxurious life, but she only received Mufa within the specified time and enjoyed full freedom, so prostitutes and lechers gathered again. She spends money like water, and once the men she receives run out of money, she dislikes them. One day, Nana suddenly disappeared and left because of an argument with Bordenave, the theater manager. Some people say that she went to Cairo. A few months later, it is said that she fell in love with the local governor and lived in the deep palace; Others say that she made all her money by fooling around with a black man. Others said that she went to Russia and became the prince's mistress. One day, she suddenly came back from abroad. After getting off the train, she went directly to her aunt's house to visit her son. She contracted smallpox from her son and soon died in a hotel.

Nana is one of the five most influential novels in Zola's naturalistic family history novel The Lugong-Markard Family, and it is a typical experimental novel in terms of writing method and literary point of view. Naturalism evolved from realism and has the characteristics of realism. As far as realism is concerned, it goes further than realism. Naturalism's description of environment, scenery and people's psychological activities is more objective, concrete and delicate than realism, just as Zola said in response to some people's criticism of him: "I said what I saw, I recorded it, that's all ... My work is not a work of the party and propaganda, but a work that shows the truth." Truthfully recording the real things is the greatest feature of naturalism, which can be seen everywhere in Nana, such as the description of the stage of the theater, the description of the dressing room of the actors, the description of the residence of the Mufa family, the description of Nana's supper, etc., all of which are true reappearance without any traces of artistic processing.