Suite Francaise - Brossura

Némirovsky, Irčne

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0701179937 ISBN 13: 9780701179939

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 2006

Riassunto

In 1941, Irčne Némirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. She did not live to see her ambition fulfilled, or to know that sixty-five years later, Suite Française would be published for the first time, and hailed as a masterpiece

Set during a year that begins with France's fall to the Nazis in June 1940 and ends with Germany turning its attention to Russia, Suite Française falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion and make their way through the chaos of France; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation who find themselves thrown together in ways they never expected. Némirovsky's brilliance as a writer lay in her portrayal of people, and this is a novel that teems with wonderful characters, each more vivid than the next. Haughty aristocrats, bourgeois bankers and snobbish aesthetes rub shoulders with uncouth workers and bolshy farmers. Women variously resist or succumb to the charms of German soldiers. However, amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.

Irene Némirovsky conceived of Suite Française as a four- or five-part novel. It was to be a symphony - her War and Peace. Although only two sections were finished before her tragic death, they form a book that is beautifully complete in itself, and awe-inspiring in its understanding of humanity.

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Recensione:

"A masterpiece" (Sunday Times)

"Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth" (Anne Chisholm Sunday Telegraph)

"An irresistible work. Suite Francaise clutches the heart" (Carmen Callil The Times)

"The work of a genuine artist" (Julian Barnes Guardian)

"Magnificent" (The Times)

Descrizione del libro:

A major event - the first publication of a lost masterpiece written in 2nd WW France and telling the spellbinding story of a group of characters living under Nazi occupation.

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• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0701179937
• ISBN 13: 9780701179939
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416