I just finished Émile Zola’s Nana after i have read Germinal, which my brother gave me right before i went to Chile. While Germinal shows the reality of mineworkers in 19th century France in Nana Zola describes the life of Parisian upper class. Both books feature dramatic and descriptive writing conveying the everyday life below a great inequality where poverty and decadence reside side by side.

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