TY  - BOOK
AU  - Suleiman, Susan Rubin
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016//
TI  - Némirovsky question: the life, death, and legacy of a jewish writer in twentieth-century France
PB  - Yale University Press
CY  - New Haven
KW  - Jews
KW  - France
KW  - Novelists, French
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - Némirovsky, Irène 1903-1942
KW  - Novelists, French / Biography / 20th century
KW  - Jewish women / Biography / France
KW  - Jews / Biography / France
AB  - Irène Némirovsky succeeded in creating a brilliant career as a novelist in the 1930s, only to have her life cut short: a “foreign Jew” in France, she was deported in 1942 and died in Auschwitz. But her two young daughters survived, and as adults they brought their mother back to life. In 2004, Suite française, Némirovsky’s posthumous novel, became an international best seller; some critics, however, condemned her as a “self-hating Jew” whose earlier works were rife with anti-Semitic stereotypes. Informed by personal interviews with Némirovsky’s descendants and others, as well as by extensive archival research, this wide-ranging intellectual biography situates Némirovsky in the literary and political climate of interwar France and recounts, for the first time, the postwar lives of her daughters. Némirovsky's Jewish works, Suleiman argues, should be read as explorations of the conflicted identities that shaped the lives of secular Jews in twentieth-century Europe and beyond.
SN  - 9780300171969
LA  - English
N1  - Susan Rubin Suleiman
ID  - 86598560X
ER  -