Irene Nemirovsky: Her Life and Works

Weiss, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0804754810 / ISBN 13: 9780804754811

Published by Stanford Univ. Press, 2007

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This is the first USA edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; France; 1940s; History. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780804754811. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 25432. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Irene Nemirovsky: Her Life and Works
• Publisher: Stanford Univ. Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804754810
• ISBN 13: 9780804754811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography

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Synopsis

On July 13, 1942, French gendarmes arrested Irčne Némirovsky 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 Française, won France's prestigious Renaudot prize in 2004? Born in Russia to wealthy parents, Irčne Némirovsky 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 Némirovsky'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.

About the Author

Jonathan Weiss is Professor of French Language and Literature at Colby College. In 1996, he met Irčne Némirovsky's two daughters. With their help, he was able to consult all the documents that their mother had passed on to them. This biography is the result of that research and of close textual analysis of Némirovsky's literary work.