first edition of 55,000 copies was sold out in one day. Flaubert and Edmond de Goncourt were full of praise for Nana. On the other hand, a part of the public and some critics reacted to the book with outrage, which may have contributed to its popularity. Flaubert wrote Zola an effusive letter praising the novel in detail. He reported which pages he had marked by turning down their corners and praising specific passages ("everything about Fontane, perfect!"). In summation he wrote: "Nana tourne au mythe, sans cesser d'être réelle". (Nana turns into myth, without ceasing to be real.) As a counterargument to Zola's depiction of the significance of heredity and environment, Alfred Sirven (1838-1900) and Henri Leverdier (1840- ) wrote a novel called Nana's Daughter: A Story of Parisian Life (1880). Published in both French and English versions, it told the story of Nana's daughter, who rises from "the gutter" and overcomes her background to become a respectable lady. Later references Édouard Manet, who was much taken with the description of the "precociously immoral" Nana in Zola's L'Assommoir gave the title "Nana" to his portrait of Henriette Hauser before Nana was published. The word "nana" has become, in contemporary French, "a mildly rude French term for woman, comparable to broad". Niki de Saint Phalle called a series of her sculptures "Nanas". They were " bulbous, archetypal maternal figures like Mexican piñatas painted in bold colors and decorated with crisp, cartoon outlines". She explained that her title evoked the prototype of the female: Eve! Aphrodite! Nana de Zola! Inusable! Increvable! (Eve! Aphrodite! Zola's Nana! Everlasting! Indestructible!). Adaptations Nana, a 1926 French film by Jean Renoir Nana, a 1934 American film by Dorothy Arzner and George Fitzmaurice, starring Anna Sten and Phillips Holmes Nana, a 1944 Mexican film by Roberto Gavaldón starring Lupe Vélez Nana, a 1955 French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer and Martine Carol Nana, a 1958 opera (written 1931-2) by Manfred Gurlitt Nana, a 1968 BBC miniseries , a 1970 French-Swedish film by Mac Ahlberg Nana, a 1981 French-Belgian-Swiss TV miniseries starring Véronique Genest Nana, the True Key of Pleasure, a 1982 Italian film by Dan Wolman Nana, a 1985 Mexican film by Rafael Baledón, starring Irma Serrano My Life to Live, directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Anna Karina, is based in part on Nana English translations Nana (1884, tr. unknown for H. Vizetelly, Vizetelly &