Suleiman Susan Rubin 1939 (2 results)

., Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939-. Crises of Memory and the Second World War. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006., x, 286pp., good dust-jacket with light foxing on reverse, very good dark blue half-cloth with brown boards, light wear. Discusses memory, holocaust, France, films: Sartre, the Aubrac Affair, Jean Moulin and André Malraux, Marcel Ophuls, Istvan Szabo, Jorge Semprun, Wilkomirski/Wiesel, Perec/Federman, Amnesia and Amnesty: Reflections on Forgetting and Forgiving. ISBN 9780674022065.

Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939-. The Némirovsky question: the life, death, and legacy of a Jewish writer in twentieth-century France. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016, 357pp., very good dust-jacket, slight wear along top edge, very good brown hardcover. INSCRIBED on half-title and SIGNED with a squiggle that looks like an "S". A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Irčne Némirovsky. Irčne 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. - CONTENTS: Introduction : a writer reborn . and debated -- Part I. Irčne. The "Jewish question" -- Némirovsky's choices, 1920-1939 -- Choices and choicelessness, 1939-1942 -- Part II. Fictions. Foreigners and strangers : Némirovsky's Jewish protagonists -- Portraits of the artist as a young Jewish woman -- Part III. Denise and Elisabeth -- Orphans of the Holocaust : two lives -- Gifts of life : a mother and her daughters. ISBN 9780300171969.