Suite Francaise (Original French edition)
by Irene Nemirovsky
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Author: Irene NemirovskyEdition: Paperback
Audio: French (Unknown); French (Published)
Published: 2006-03-01
ISBN: 0785928332
Number of pages: 573
Publisher: French & European Pubns
Book Reviews of Suite Francaise (Original French edition)
Book Review: Fascinating
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the French version of the book, and it has a lot of introductory information about the author that the English version doesn't. I bought both to read with my other bilingual friend, as sometimes it helps to learn translation techniques. The story is engaging, and I hate that it ended where it ended - I was dying to see what would happen! Thankfully, this version also has more information from the author's notes that give you an idea of what certain characters were going to do and how they were planned to interact.
There is extremely detailed character development and description, more reminiscent of a 19th century style, so you need to have a little patience. Some characters that are carefully developed don't seem to have much action. It is, however, almost like watching a movie of the German invasion of France... you watch people from all types of backgrounds react to the chaos. Very interesting.
Summary of Suite Francaise (Original French edition)
Celebrated in pre-WWII France for her bestselling fiction, the Jewish Russian-born N??mirovsky was shipped to Auschwitz in the summer of 1942, months after this long-lost masterwork was composed. N??mirovsky, a convert to Catholicism, began a planned five-novel cycle as Nazi forces overran northern France in 1940. This gripping "suite," collecting the first two unpolished but wondrously literary sections of a work cut short, have surfaced more than six decades after her death. The first, "Storm in June," chronicles the connecting lives of a disparate clutch of Parisians, among them a snobbish author, a venal banker, a noble priest shepherding churlish orphans, a foppish aesthete and a loving lower-class couple, all fleeing city comforts for the chaotic countryside, mere hours ahead of the advancing Germans. The second, "Dolce," set in 1941 in a farming village under German occupation, tells how peasant farmers, their pretty daughters and petit bourgeois collaborationists coexisted with their Nazi rulers. In a workbook entry penned just weeks before her arrest, N??mirovsky noted that her goal was to describe "daily life, the emotional life and especially the comedy it provides." This heroic work does just that, by focusing with compassion and clarity on individual human dramasMemoirs Books
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