Suite francese
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Suite francese, pubblicato postumo nel 2004, è l’ultimo romanzo di Irène Némirovsky. Scritto agli albori del secondo conflitto mondiale a Issy-l’Évêque, in Borgogna, è un affresco spietato, composto quasi in diretta, della disfatta francese e dell’occupazione tedesca, in cui le tragedie della Storia si intrecciano alla vita quotidiana e ai destini individuali. È un caleidoscopio di comportamenti condizionati dalle aberrazioni della guerra, dalla paura, dal sordido egoismo, dalla viltà, dall’indifferenza, dagli istinti di sopravvivenza e di sopraffazione, dall’ordinaria crudeltà, dall’ansia di amore. È il racconto della passione, ambigua e tormentata, che nasce tra una giovane donna il cui marito è disperso al fronte e un ufficiale tedesco. Con lucida indignazione ma anche con pietà, Némirovsky mette a nudo le dinamiche profonde dell’esistenza umana di fronte alle prove estreme e scrive un insperato capolavoro della letteratura del Novecento.
Irène Némirovsky nasce nel 1903 a Kiev, in una famiglia dell’alta borghesia ebraica. Emigrata a Parigi nel 1919, frequenta la Sorbona e si appassiona alla lettura di Huysmans, Wilde e Proust. Ai primi racconti segue, nel 1929, il romanzo dell’affermazione, David Golder. Dopo l’invasione tedesca della Francia viene arrestata e deportata ad Auschwitz, dove muore nell’agosto 1942 in poco più di un mese di prigionia.
- ISBN: 8811688973
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 420
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A masterpiece. And this is the rough draft. I've spent the last day trying to decide if I loved this book because I'm sentimental. The author, Irene Nemirovsky, was a Russian Jew who wrote this while living in occupied France. A respected author, she had married Micheal Epstein who had also fled Russ Leggi tutto
Unless you’re reading a memoir or autobiography, you usually aren’t conscious of an author’s presence in a book. I’m not talking about style. Obviously, there are times you can tell the provenance of a book, and know its creator, by skimming a few paragraphs. Short, punchy sentences, hyper-masculini Leggi tutto
Tour de force! What a breathtaking achievement - this novel is incredible! The story of how it was written is a dramatic witness account of the surreal world of France occupied by the Wehrmacht from 1940 on. Irène Némirovsky, of Jewish origin, wrote it while expecting to be deported to the East, an Leggi tutto
This is a story of the invasion of Paris by the Germans in WW II (Part I) and the German occupation of a village outside of Paris (Part II). War brings out the best and worst in people and during the chaotic flight out of Paris (to which most of those who fled simply returned a week or two later) we Leggi tutto
This book jolted me. It's rare when I read a book literally from cover to cover...and close it nearly in tears. This was witten as France was being occupied by the Nazis during the Second World War, thus, this may well be the first fictional account of World War Two as it was happening . Needless to Leggi tutto
I picked this one up because it resembled a historical romance. (I believe the cover to be one of the most powerful and beautiful, & just o-so-right for this particular book that I could scream!) Then I found out what the tiny particles of pathos all seemed to portend: this was a posthumous work. Im Leggi tutto
MUST READ! MUST READ! Wonderful unfinished novel by famous Jewish French author... Interesting story is behind publication of this novel... The manuscript stayed in a box for decades because the daughters of the author thought it is diary... but it was not... One of my favourite novels and I am prou Leggi tutto
“Tolone S/Arroux 13 luglio 1942 - ore 5 [scritta a matita e non obliterata] “Copro di baci le mie bambine adorate, e che la mia Denise faccia sempre la brava... Ti stringo forte sul cuore insieme con Babet, che il buon Dio vi protegga. Quanto a me, mi sento calma e forte” . Non avevo mai letto nulla Leggi tutto
The story of the author and how the book came to be published so many years after her death is a much more compelling story than this, although if Nemirovsky had the chance to complete the book to her vision I may think differently. As it is, the book was well-done in its portrayal of the many facet Leggi tutto
Suite Française = French Suite, Irène Némirovsky Suite Française is the title of a planned sequence of five novels by Irène Némirovsky, a French writer of Ukrainian-Jewish origin. In July 1942, having just completed the first two of the series, Némirovsky was arrested as a Jew and detained at Pithivi Leggi tutto
