Book David Golder, the Ball, Snow in Autumn, the Courilof Affair Irène Némirovsky

portada David Golder, the Ball, Snow in Autumn, the Courilof Affair

Type

Physical Book

Author

Irène Némirovsky

Publisher

Everymans Lib

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

363

Format

Hardcover

Weight

ISBN

0307267083

ISBN13

9780307267085

Edition No.

Synopsis "David Golder, the Ball, Snow in Autumn, the Courilof Affair"

Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Némirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Française. But Suite Française was only the coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, magnificent novelist. Here in one volume are four of Némirovsky’s other novels–all of them newly translated by the award-winning Sandra Smith, and all, except DAVID GOLDER, available in English for the first time. DAVID GOLDER is the novel that established Néirovsky’s reputation in France in 1929 when she was twenty-six. It is a novel about greed and lonliness, the story of a self-made business man, once wealthy, now suffering a breakdown as he nears the lonely end of his life. THE COURILOF AFFAIR tells the story of a Russian revolutionary living out his last days–and his recollections of his first infamous assassination. Also included are two short, gemlike novels: THE BALL, a pointed exploration of adolescence and the obsession with status among the bourgeoisie; and SNOW IN AUTUMN, an evocative tale of White Russian émigrés in Paris after the Russian Revolution. Introduced by celebrated novelist Claire Messud, this collection of four spellbinding novels offers the same storytelling mastery, powerful clarity of language, and empathic grasp of human behavior that would give shape to Suite Française.

Irène Némirovsky

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Irène Némirovsky (Kiev, 11 de febrero de 1903-campo de concentración de Auschwitz, 17 de agosto de 1942) fue una escritora nacida en el Imperio Ruso que vivió en Francia desde su juventud y escribió en francés. Fue deportada a Alemania bajo leyes raciales por su origen judío, aunque se había convertido al catolicismo en 1939, y murió en Auschwitz a los 39 años.

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