Emptiness & Silence
A Supplement to Reading Nana
Emile Zola's novel Nana is re-read and re-written, according to emptiness and silence. There are failed voices, empty glasses and drawing-rooms, and noiseless departures. There is silent laughter. Men and women are dumbfounded. There is a deathly hush and the plains of the new Paris are icy and empty.
