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The Life of Irene Nemirovsky
Biographies & autobiographies.
The Life of Irene Nemirovsky
The first major biography of the author of Suite Française The posthumous publication of Suite Française won Irène Némirovsky international acclaim and brought millions of readers to her work. But the story of her own life was no less dramatic and moving than her most powerful fiction. With her family, she escaped Russia in 1919 and settled in Paris, where she met and married fellow Jewish émigré Michel Epstein. In 1929 she published her highly acclaimed and controversial novel David Golder, the first of many successful books that established her stellar reputation. But when France fell to the Nazis, her renown did her little good: without French citizenship, she was forced to seek ref...
Historical Dictionary of French Literature
With the possible exception of Great Britain, France can justifiably lay claim to possess the richest literary history of any country in Western Europe. This book covers the authors and their works, literary movements, and philosophical and social developments that have had a direct impact on style or content, and major historical events such as the two world wars, the Franco-Prussian War, the Algerian War, or the events of May 1968 that are directly reflected in a substantial body of imaginative writing. Historical Dictionary of French Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on individual writers and key texts, significant movements, groups, associations, and periodicals, and on the literary reactions to major national and international events such as revolutions and wars. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about French literature.
The Némirovsky Question
A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Irène Némirovsky Irène Némirovsky succeeded in creating a brilliant career as a novelist in the 1930s, only to have her life cut short: a “foreign Jew” in France, she was deported in 1942 and died in Auschwitz. But her two young daughters survived, and as adults they brought their mother back to life. In 2004, Suite française, Némirovsky’s posthumous novel, became an international best seller; some critics, however, condemned her as a “self-hating Jew” whose earlier works were rife with anti-Semitic stereotypes. Informed by personal interviews with Némirovsky’s descendants and others, as well as by extensive archival research, this wide-ranging intellectual biography situates Némirovsky in the literary and political climate of interwar France and recounts, for the first time, the postwar lives of her daughters. Némirovsky's Jewish works, Suleiman argues, should be read as explorations of the conflicted identities that shaped the lives of secular Jews in twentieth-century Europe and beyond.
Emmanuel Berl - Cavalier seul
Essayiste, romancier, journaliste, philosophe, historien, mémorialiste... Emmanuel Berl (1892-1976) fut tout cela à la fois. Rien ne sera resté étranger à ce personnage singulier, cavalier seul en marge des grandes équipées de son temps. Sa vie commence sous le regard de Bergson et de Proust, ses parents éloignés. Elle s’achève par une étroite complicité avec Patrick Modiano. Entre-temps, il aura couru l’aventure de son siècle aux côtés d’Aragon, Drieu, Breton, Malraux, Morand ou Camus, pour ne citer qu’eux. Son nom évoque d’éclatants pamphlets, l’hebdomadaire Marianne qu’il dirigea de 1932 à 1936, son mariage, improbable et joyeux, avec la chanteuse Mireille ...
Modernism and Autobiography
This is the first book of its kind to address modernist autobiography in a comprehensive manner.
La vie d'Irène Nemirovsky
Pour écrire cette biographie, destinée à devenir l’ouvrage de référence sur Irène Némirovsky, Patrick Lienhardt et Olivier Philipponnat ont puisé aux sources les plus récentes et la plupart du temps inédites : écrits récemment découverts d’Irène Némirovsky, tels ses carnets de travail, des souvenirs non publiés d’autres auteurs, des témoignages recueillis pour la première fois. Ils se sont rendus dans des endroits cruciaux pour la compréhension de la vie d’Irène Némirovsky, par exemple en Russie. Grâce au triomphe posthume de Suite française (Denoël, 2004), la France et le reste du monde ont redécouvert une des voix les plus singulières de la littérature de...
Before Auschwitz
Kershaw analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France, exploring the cultural exchange between France and Russia and the political implications of Némirovsky’s fiction--particularly the enthusiastic reception of her work in far-right anti-Semitic journals.
Irène Némirovsky's Russian Influences
This book explores the influence of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov on Russian-born French language writer Irène Némirovsky. It considers the complexity of each of these relationships and the different modes in which they appear; demonstrating how, by skillfully integrating reading and writing, reception and creation, Némirovsky engaged with Russian literature within her own work. Through detailed analysis of the intersections between novels, short stories and archival sources, the book assesses to what degree Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov influenced Némirovsky, how this influence affected her work, and to what effects. To this aim the book articulates the notion of creative influence, a method that, in conversation with theories of influence, intertextuality, and reception aesthetics, seeks to reflect a “meeting of artistic minds” that includesaffective, ethical, and creative encounters between writers, readers, and researchers.
