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Monsieur Rose et autres nouvelles réalistes

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Un homme, mourant, consulte son notaire : il veut déshériter son fils, certain qu'il l'a trahi et volé. Deux frères, soldats, attendent leur train pendant la guerre. L'aîné a de surprenantes nouvelles à confier à son cadet... Un homme, égoïste et solitaire, a tout calculé pour passer la guerre sans en souffrir. Mais le conflit qu'il voulait fuir le rattrape et, contre toute attente, il pourrait lui faire découvrir une part d'humanité enfouie en lui. Ces trois nouvelles d'Irène Némirovsky montrent l'homme tel qu'il est, avec ses qualités et ses défauts, et interrogent son rapport au monde et aux autres hommes.

105 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2012

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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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March 27, 2016
Monsieur Rose -L'honnête homme - L'inconnu
Tre racconti che sembrano usciti dal romanzo Suite francese , di cui forse sono bozzetti: furono pubblicati infatti, con pseudonimo, su riviste francesi tra l'agosto del '40 e quello del '41, mentre la Némirovsky lavorava alla "Suite". Il tema della guerra li accomuna, con la concitazione iniziale, il disordine dei valori morali, il ribaltamento delle regole abituali; un'apocalisse pacata che sembra mettere a nudo gli animi umani e che, nello stesso tempo, ci appare oggi come preludio dell'imminente tragica fine dell'Autrice. Ricorre il tema dei legami familiari, tra padre e figli o tra fratelli, in mondi che sembrano prevalentemente maschili. E la Némirovsky, come nella "Suite", riesce a cogliere con nitidezza un'umanità eterogenea in trasformazione, descrivendo con sapienza gli aspetti più intimi e veri dei suoi personaggi. Ne scaturiscono tre quadri sociali realistici e complementari, con ritratti sempre ben delineati sia dal punto di vista fisico che psicologico. Chapeau dunque a chi ci ha messo la firma.
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