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.

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.

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.

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.

Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Russia, the narrative follows Baruch, a gifted young poet and songwriter whose talent captivates a Princess. While she offers him an escape from his challenging life in an Orthodox Jewish community, his infatuation leads to despair as he realizes her affection is superficial. As Baruch's health deteriorates and he loses his creative gift, he faces the harsh reality of being cast aside, ultimately returning to his family and confronting the tragic fallout of his unrequited love.

But over the course of his stay he is made privy to the inner world of the man he must kill - his failing health, his troubled domestic situation and, most importantly, the tyrannical grip that the Czar himself holds over all his Ministers, forcing them to obey him or suffer the most deadly punishments.

The Misunderstanding is Irène Némirovsky's first novel, written when she was just twenty-one and published in a literary journal two years later. An intense story of self-destructive and blighted love, it is also a tragic satire of French society after the Great War. Yves Harteloup, scarred by the war, is a disappointed young man, old money fallen on hard times, who returns for the summer to the rich, comfortable Atlantic resort of Hendaye, where he spent blissful childhood holidays. He becomes infatuated with a beautiful, bored young woman, Denise, whose rich husband is often away on business. Intoxicated by summer nights and Yves' intensity, Denise falls passionately in love, before the idyll has to end and Yves must return to his mundane office job. In the mournful Paris autumn their love flounders on mutual misunderstanding, in the apparently unbridgeable gap between a life of idle wealth and the demands of making a living, between a woman's needs and a man's way of loving. As Denise is driven mad with desire and jealous suspicion, Yves, too sure of her, tortures himself and her with his emotional ambivalence. Taking her sophisticated mother's advice, Denise takes action...which she may regret forever. With a sharp satirical eye and a characteristic perception for the fault lines in human relationships, Irène Némirovsky's first novel shows sure signs of the brilliant novelist she was to become.

«Diceva bene il primo editore francese di Irène Némirovsky, che questo romanzo, il suo “primo d'a­mo­re”, era bello almeno quanto il celeberrimo David Golder. Forse è più bello. Ha una vena nuova, per nulla ironica, ma ugualmente dura, raffi­nata, indagatrice, ha un timbro esclusivamente femminile, questo romanzo magnifico sull'essere in due. I giovani reduci della prima guerra mondiale, tornando a casa, “accusano” quella guerra ormai finita, nei fasti di una Parigi che vuole rinascere, ma non possono dimenticare il fango delle trincee. Sono loro i veri protagonisti di queste relazioni strane, sghembe, eppure così comprensibili, così moderne per essere ambientate negli anni Venti ... Un capolavoro di psicologia e sociologia, imbarazzante per la sua verità dispiegata. Una penna magnifica, un libro imprescindibile». Valeria Parrella