[lit-ideas] Irene Nemirovsky
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:41:57 +0100
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1334191,00.html
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>Sixty-two years after its author died in the gas chambers of
>Auschwitz, a remarkable and previously unpublished wartime work by an
>emigré Russian Jew in France has taken the world of publishing by
>storm.
>Suite francaise, the first two parts of what Irène Némirovsky
>originally intended to be a five-volume epic, has been hailed by
>ecstatic French critics as "a masterpiece" and "probably the
>definitive novel of our nation in the second world war".
>Rights to the work, published three weeks ago, have already been sold
>in 18 countries, including Britain and the US, often for sums higher
>than any previously paid for a French novel, and a vigorous campaign
>is underway for Némirovsky to be posthumously awarded France's most
>prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt.
>"One of the great 20th century authors ... A gigantic literary and
>historical gift," said the daily La Croix. "A work of exceptional
>force ... remarkable because written not after, but during, the war,"
>said L'Express. "A suberb work ... A capital discovery," said the Le
>Point weekly. "A chef-d'oeuvre ... ripped from
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Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
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