Reading Nana – An experimental novel – Dr Sharon Kivland
| Title: | Reading Nana - An experimental novel |
| Publisher: | Ma Bibliothèque |
| Authors: | Dr Sharon Kivland |
| Publication date: | May, 2017 |
| Print ISBN: | 978-1-910055-30-4 |
| Format: | 140mm x 205mm, perfect-bound |
| Number of pages: | 104 |
Zola’s novel, his ‘true story of the demi-monde’, was published in instalments, first appearing in October 1879 in Le Voltaire. The definitive version in book form was published on 15 February by Charpentier. Emile Zola’s novel Nana is re-read and re-written,ghost-written, condensed according to soft furnishings, lighting effects (including metaphor), other women, death and dying, cats, anti-semitism, money, smell, and many other categories. Kivland has been reading Nana by Émile Zola for some time now, over a number of years. Some parts of her reading have been published in instalments in Crux Desperationes, while others have been performed. She takes it upon herself to depict Nana, to speak for her and as her: a woman who is a book, a book that is a woman.