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Balo • Düşman

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Irène Némirovsky ilk yapıtlarından olan Düşman (1928) ile Balo’da (1929) keskin gözlem gücünü bu kez kendi yaşamında da önemli yer tutan sevgisiz anne figürüne yöneltir. Düşman’ın on yedi yaşındaki kahramanı Gabri de, Balo’nun on dört yaşına henüz basmış olan Antoinette’i de annelerinin hoyratça kayıtsızlıklarıyla farklı biçimlerde yüzleşen genç kadınlardır. Gabri’nin yine hoyratça, Antoinette’in bilgece kurguladıkları intikamlar, Némirovsky’nin insan psikolojisini derinlemesine işleme yeteneğinin ilk kanıtları olarak dikkat çekmiştir. Yazarın Pierre Nerey takma adıyla yayımladığı iki yapıttan Balo 1930’larda yakaladığı ilgiyi izleyen yıllarda da korumuş, 1980’li yıllarda okul kitaplarına girmiş, 2010 yılında operaya, 2013’te tiyatroya uyarlanmıştır.

192 pages, Paperback

Published November 10, 2025

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Irène Némirovsky

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Irène Némirovsky was born in Kyiv in 1903 into a successful banking family. Trapped in Moscow by the Russian Revolution, she and her family fled first to a village in Finland, and eventually to France, where she attended the Sorbonne.

Irène Némirovsky achieved early success as a writer: her first novel, David Golder, published when she was twenty-six, was a sensation. By 1937 she had published nine further books and David Golder had been made into a film; she and her husband Michel Epstein, a bank executive, moved in fashionable social circles.

When the Germans occupied France in 1940, she moved with her husband and two small daughters, aged 5 and 13, from Paris to the comparative safety of Issy-L’Evêque. It was there that she secretly began writing Suite Française. Though her family had converted to Catholicism, she was arrested on 13 July, 1942, and interned in the concentration camp at Pithiviers. She died in Auschwitz in August of that year. --Penguin Random House

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November 13, 2019
Dușmanca 4/5 stele
Balul 2/5 stele
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August 20, 2019
Dar pe cine nu detesta Gabri? Trăia într-o stare de ură permanentă, mereu frioasă și tristă...

-Nu te urăsc, dar... Dar nici nu te iubesc... De altfel, cred că asta ți-e indiferent... O amărăciune profundă îi schimba glasul. Da, cred că ți-e indiferent... Nu ținem la iubirea celor pe care nu-i iubim.

-Acum e prea târziu! Sunt a ta ca un fruct pe care-l mănânci... Tot ce vrei, înțelegi? Tot ce vrei... Numai să nu știe nimic, niciodată... Jură că nu va afla de la tine... Jură pe viața mea... O clipă... Căsătoria, sinceritatea, o viață liberă și onestă, toate astea nu sunt pentru noi...
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September 7, 2021
Slăbuțe, foarte departe de Suita franceza
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