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Irene Nemirovsky: Her Life and Works (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Irene NemirovskyThis short critical biography by an expert on contemporary French literature is a fine introduction to the work of Irene Nemirovsky, author of "Suite Fran aise," who died in Auschwitz in 1942.
Full description- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Published: 15 October 2006
- Format: Hardback 200 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Literary | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
- ISBN 13: 9780804754811 ISBN 10: 0804754810
- Sales rank: 455,078
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Full description for Irene Nemirovsky
On July 13, 1942, French gendarmes arrested Irene Nemirovsky in southern Burgundy. She was deported to Auschwitz where she died on August 19. Who was this woman, author of more than a dozen popular novels and more than thirty short stories, whose posthumous novel, "Suite Francaise," won France's prestigious Renaudot prize in 2004? Born in Russia to wealthy parents, Irene Nemirovsky immigrated to Paris in 1919. Although she was Jewish, she consorted with authors and politicians on the extreme right, some of whom were openly anti-Semitic. She was sure that these friends would protect her from deportation after the Nazis invaded France. Instead, they abandoned her. Yet she never lost faith in France, even after she was refused French nationality. In this fascinating biography, Jonathan Weiss analyzes the discrepancy between Nemirovsky's real and imagined identities, and explores a literary work that revisits in a unique way Jewish identity, exile, betrayal, and the solidarity of a persecuted people.
