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Nana (novel)
1880 novel by Émile Zola
Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola.
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Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series.
Origins
A year before he started to write Nana, Zola knew nothing about the Théâtre des Variétés.
Ludovic Halévy invited him to attend an operetta with him there on February 15, 1878, and took him backstage. Halévy told him innumerable stories about the amorous life of the star, Anna Judic, whose ménage à trois served as the model for the relationships of Rose Mignon, her husband, and Steiner in Zola's novel.
Halévy also provided Zola with stories about famous prostitutes such as Blanche d'Antigny, Anna Deslions, Delphine de Lizy, and Hortense Schneider, upon which Zola drew in developing the character of his title character. Yet it was Valtesse de la Bigne, painted by both Manet and Henri Gervex, who most inspired him; it is she who is immortalised in his scandalous novel Na