Irène Némirovsky Libros

El descubrimiento de un manuscrito perdido de IrC(ne Nemirovsky causo una autentica conmocion en el mundo editorial frances y europeo. Novela excepcional escrita en condiciones excepcionales, Suite francesa retrata con maestria una epoca fundamental de la Europa del siglo XX. Imbuida de un claro componente autobiografico, Suite francesa se inicia en Paris los dias preavios a la invasion alemana, en un clima de incertidumbre e incredulidad. Enseguida, tras las primeras bombas miles de familias se lanzan a las carreterras en coche, en bicicleta o a pie. Nemirovsky dibuja con precision las escenas, unas conmovedoras y otras grotescas, que se suceden en el camino: ricos burgueses angustiados, amantes abandonadas, ancianos olvidados en el viaje, los bombardeos sobre la poblacion indefensa, las artimanas para conseguir agua, comida y gasolina. A medida que los alemanes van tomando posesion del pais, se vislumbra un desmoronamiento del orden social imperante y el nacimiento de una nueva epoca. La presencia de los invasores despertara odios, pero tambien historias de amor clandestinas y publicas muestras de colaboracionismo. Concebida ocmo una composicion en cinco partes -de las cuales la autora solo alcanzo a escribir dos- Suite francesa combina un retrato intimista de la burguesia ilustrada con una vision implacable d e la sociedas francesa durante la ocupacion.

Elogiada y admirada por su destreza para crear personajes verosímiles, de rasgos profundamente humanos, Irène Némirovsky da prueba una vez más de una incisiva caracterización psicológica en esta novela sobre el desarraigo y la azarosa búsqueda de reconocimiento social. Dario Asfar, un joven médico originario de Crimea, llega a Niza acompañado de su mujer y de su hijo recién nacido. Atormentado por las deudas, Dario lucha desesperadamente por conseguir una clientela, pero su origen levantino sólo inspira desconfianza y rechazo. La precaria situación de su familia lo empuja entonces a emprender el único camino que se le ofrece para escapar de la miseria: aprovechándose del creciente auge del psicoanálisis, Dario se transforma en terapeuta improvisado, una suerte de charlatán dispuesto a ofrecer a los ricos burgueses el sosiego del alma y la felicidad que tanto anhelan. Sin embargo, el éxito y la fortuna tan ansiados tendrán para él consecuencias insospechadas. El trazo ligero de Némirovsky describe con implacable lucidez la figura del advenedizo en el París de los años treinta, donde poderosos señores y elegantes mujeres de mundo conviven con una corte de vividores, menesterosos y canallas que pululan por la ciudad, conformando un mundo de mil caras fascinantes. El maestro de almas fue publicada por entregas en el semanario Gringoire entre mayo y agosto de 1939, apenas tres años antes de la desaparición de la autora, y reeditada en forma de libro por primera vez en el año 2006.

A stunning novel about mothers and daughters, about vengeance, and an aging, still beautiful woman on trial for shooting her lover. In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she remains striking, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marriage, her turbulent relationship with her daughter, her decline, and then the final irrevocable act. With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion we have come to expect from the acclaimed author of Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky shows us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth.

The prequel to the bestselling Suite Française Paris 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. The city is a whirl of decadence and corruption and he embarks on a life of parties and shady business dealings, as well as an illicit affair. But as another war threatens, everything around him starts to crumble, and the future for him and for France suddenly looks dangerously uncertain.

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Française, a newly discovered novel, a story of passion and long-kept secrets, set against the background of a rural French village in the years before World War II.Written in 1941, Fire in the Blood – only now assembled in its entirety – teems with the intertwined lives of an insular French village in the years before the war, when "peace" was less important as a political state than as a coveted personal condition: the untroubled pinnacle of happiness. At the center of the novel is Silvio, who has returned to this small town after years away. As his narration unfolds, we are given an intimate picture of the loves and infidelities, the scandals, the youthful ardor and regrets of age that tie Silvio to the long-guarded secrets of the past.

The first collection of short stories by Irene Nemirovsky to appear in English, this volume features stories that deal with conflict between generations during the bourgeois period and the events of 1940 in France."

The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irà ̈ne Némirovskyâe(tm)s life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Française, it is a panoramic exploration of French life and a witness to the greatest horrors of the twentieth century. After four years of bloody warfare Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. No more the naà ̄ve hopes and dreams of the teenager who went to war. Attracted by the lure of money and success, Bernard embarks on a life of luxuriant delinquency supported by suspect financial dealings and easy virtue. Yet when his lover throws him off, he turns to a wholesome childhood friend for comfort. For ten years he lives the good bourgeois life, but as another war threatens everything Bernard had clung to starts to crumble, and the future for his marriage and for France looks terribly uncertain. First published posthumously in France in 1957, The Fires of Autumn is a coruscating, tragic evocation of the reality of war and its dirty aftermath, and the ugly colour it can turn a manâe(tm)s soul.

As first the Great War and then the Russian Revolution rage in the background, she grows from a lonely, melancholy child to an angry young woman intent on destruction. The Wine of Solitude is a powerful tale of an unhappy family in difficult times and a woman prepared to wreak a shattering revenge.

Taut, evocative and beautifully paced, All Our Worldly Goods points up with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close were those two wars, how history repeated itself, tragically, shockingly...

As the crisis pushes the family to the brink of dissolution, Tatiana struggles to adapt to life in Paris and waits in vain for her cherished first snow of autumn.