Irène Némirovsky, página 3 de 11

An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation--discovered and published 62 years after the author's tragic death at Auschwitz. Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, it is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art. Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. "Suite Francaise" tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy--in their town, their homes, even in their hearts. When Irene Nemirovsky began working on "Suite Francaise," she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died. For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.

In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Française and some of the themes of Némirovsky's great unfinished sequence of novels. All Our Worldly Goods, though, is complete, and exquisitely so - a perfect novel in its own right. First published in France in 1947, after the author's death, it is a gripping story of family life and starcrossed lovers, of money and greed, set against the backdrop of France from 1911 to 1940 between two terrible wars. Pierre and Agnès marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hardelot, provoking a family feud which cascades down the generations. This is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, the bourgeoisie observed close-up with Némirovsky's characteristically sly humour and clear-eyed compassion. Full of drama and heartbreak, telling observation of the devastating effects of two wars on a small town and an industrial family, this is Némirovsky at the height of her powers. The exodus and flow of refugee humanity through the town in both wars foreshadows Suite Française, but differently, because this is Northern France, near the Somme, and the town itself is twice razed. Taut, evocative and beautifully paced, the novel points up with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close were those two wars, how history repeated itself, tragically, shockingly... It opens in the Edwardian era, on a fashionable Normandy beach, and ends with a changed world, under Nazi occupation.

In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and some of the themes of Nemirovsky's great unfinished sequence of novels "All Our Worldly Goods", though, is complete, and exquisitely so - a perfect novel in its own right...De maneras realmente evocadoras, esta extraordinaria y adictiva novela es un antecedente de "Suite Francaise" y de algunos de los temas de la gran serie inacabada de novelas de Irene Nemirovsky "All Our Worldly Goods", sin embargo, es una novela completa, exquisitamente acabada, una novela perfecta en sí misma por derecho propio...

In 1903, Leon M - a devout terrorist - is given the responsibility of 'liquidating' Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the notoriously brutal and cold-blooded Russian Minister of Education, by the Revolutionary Committee. This is an unsparing observation of human motives and the abuses of power and an elegy to lost world. En 1903, el Comité Revolucionario encomienda a Leon M., un dedicado terrorista, la responsabilidad de 'liquidar' a Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, el brutal y notoriamente sanguinario Ministro de Educación ruso. Esta es una inspiradora observación de las motivaciones humanas y de los abusos de poder, así como una elegía al mundo perdido.

L'auteur de Suite française, David Golder, Le Bal... plaçait très haut l'art de la nouvelle. Ce livre rassemble douze textes inédits, dont sept écrits sous l'Occupation. Son art du récit et de la satire s'y teinte peu a peu d'inquiétude et d'amertume. Au sommaire : Film parlé, Écho, Magie, En raison des circonstances, La Peur, Les Cartes, L'Inconnue, La Voleuse, Les Revenants, La Grande Allée, Les Vierges, L'Ami et la Femme. Ces nouvelles ont été rassemblées et présentées par Olivier Philipponnat, l'auteur de La Vie d'Irène Némirovsky.

In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effects of this momentous event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored in Irene Nemirovsky's gripping and heartbreaking novel. Nemirovsky herself was a tragic victim of the Nazi regime but she left behind her this exceptional masterpiece. In "Suite Francaise", she conjures up a vivid cast of wonderful characters who find themselves thrown together in ways they never expected. Amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.

A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.

«Les mouches d´automne» se situe en 1917. Tatiana Ivanovna part avec ses maîtres, chassés de leur domaine par la révolution russe. Elle les suit à Odessa puis à Paris. L´auteure décrit le désarroi nostalgique de ces exilés.«La Niania» illustre l´absurdité de la vie des Russes déracinés, dans la France d´après-guerre.«Naissance d´une révolution» relate le simulacre d´une exécution.

Pierre Hardelot, erede delle omonime cartiere, ha una fidanzata rosea e grassoccia che la famiglia ha scelto per lui, ma è innamorato di un'altra: una che non gli consentiranno mai di sposare, perché appartiene alla piccola borghesia, e non ha dote. Eppure, alla vigilia del matrimonio, Pierre decide di infrangere quella invisibile ma solida barriera "fatta di buon sangue, di carni robuste e sane e di risparmi investiti in titoli di Stato, una barriera destinata a proteggere per sempre i giovani dalle insidie della sorte e dalle loro stesse passioni", e la legge non scritta per la quale di generazione in generazione accoppiamenti giudiziosi stringono sempre di più i legami tra le poche famiglie che contano della ricca borghesia di provincia - e sposa la donna che ama. Comincia così il romanzo di Irène Némirovsky: trenta capitoli in cui, attraverso la storia degli Hardelot, si percorrono trent'anni di storia francese, da quelli che precedettero la prima guerra mondiale a quelli che vedono (nel momento stesso in cui Irène racconta gli eventi mentre stanno accadendo) l'occupazione della Francia da parte dei tedeschi.

Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940.Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart.Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemyin their town, their homes, even in their hearts.When Irene Nemirovsky began working on Suite Française, she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died.For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.

Publicada pòstumament el 1946, la biografia de Txèkhov escrita per Némirovsky revela la proximitat que l’autora tenia amb la sensibilitat del gran escriptor rus. Anton Txèkhov va conèixer totes les

An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation--discovered and published 62 years after the author's tragic death at Auschwitz. Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, "Suite Fran aise" is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.

SUITE FRANCAISE has all the ingredients of a major bestseller: the story behind its rediscovery is extraordinary; the life of the author is fascinating and moving; but, most importantly, it is a hugely compelling work of literature, elegantly, subtly and simply written, with astounding insight into the moral complexities of the human condition. It comprises two parts of what might have been a four or five-part work had Irene not been taken to Auschwitz. She conceived of it as a symphony - or her WARE AND PEACE. In the first part, Storm in June, she tells of the exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Bourgeois and working-class characters alike pack up their belongings and flee, forced to rub shoulders in traffic-jams on the crowded roads south, some behaving with dignity, others with nauseating selfishness. In Part Two, Dolce, we meet several of them again in a small French village where Nazi soldiers are billetted, and watch Lucille's story unfold as she tries to resist the attractions of a sensitive German officer, and takes the risk of defending a young farmer who joins the resistance. The intertwining stories of all these utterly engaging and vivid characters combine to produce a unique portrait of France at that time, and of the subtle calibrations that exist between collaboration and resistance.