Irène Némirovsky Knihy

Autorka koncipovala román ako hudobný opus o piatich častiach, stihla však napísať iba prvé dve. Búrka opisuje bezhlavý útek Parížanov z mesta, všeobecnú paniku, vzájomnú nevraživosť, ohromenie, sklamanie, strach z prichádzajúcich Nemcov, ústup zvyškov francúzskej armády. Irene Némirovsky majstrovsky vyjadrila všeobecný chaos a zmätok, ktorý všade zavládol. Druhá časť Dolce líči príchod nemeckej jednotky do malého francúzskeho mestečka, počiatočnú nedôveru, postupné zbližovanie miestnych s okupantmi, príbeh má aj svojho Rómea a Júliu a ich láska je rovnako nemožná a zakázaná ako láska shakespearovských hrdinov.

V nepříliš rozsáhlém, čechovovsky laděném románu Podzimní mouchy aneb Žena z dávných dob autorka vykresluje úpadek ruské rodiny, které se ve vřavě revoluce zhroutí svět. Karinovi prchající před bolševiky se uchýlí do Francie a v rodinném sídle ponechají jen věrnou chůvu Taťánu Ivanovnu. Nakonec se i ona vydává v jejich stopách a opouští domov, který bolševický režim nadobro zničil.Irène Némirovsky vypráví s citem a bez přehnaného patosu příběh o lidech, kteří zažívají konec jedné éry a bolest ze ztráty domova i těch, které tolik milovali. Chůva, žena z dávných dob, je ochránkyní vzpomínek na Rusko. Vzpomínek, které v emigraci slábnou a rozpouští se ve starostech o živobytí. S její smrtí odchází i starý svět. Ačkoliv se z hrdinů ve chvílích beznaděje stávají malátné a unavené „podzimní mouchy, které […] vyčerpaně a podráž­děně poletují, narážejí do oken a táhnou za sebou polomrtvá křídla“, nakonec i oni docházejí k trpkému smíření s novou každodenností.Rozsah knihy připomíná, že silného účinku lze dosáhnout i nemnoha slovy. Jediné, co se dá totiž románu vytknout, je, že ho přečtete tak rychle. Nejspíš na jeden zátah.

When the novel opens, he is at work in his magnificent Parisian apartment while his wife and beloved daughter, Joyce`, spend his money at their villa in Biarritz.

A stunning novel about mothers and daughters, about vengeance, and an aging, still beautiful woman on trial for shooting her lover. In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she remains striking, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marriage, her turbulent relationship with her daughter, her decline, and then the final irrevocable act. With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion we have come to expect from the acclaimed author of Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky shows us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth.

The prequel to the bestselling Suite Française Paris 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. The city is a whirl of decadence and corruption and he embarks on a life of parties and shady business dealings, as well as an illicit affair. But as another war threatens, everything around him starts to crumble, and the future for him and for France suddenly looks dangerously uncertain.

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Française, a newly discovered novel, a story of passion and long-kept secrets, set against the background of a rural French village in the years before World War II.Written in 1941, Fire in the Blood – only now assembled in its entirety – teems with the intertwined lives of an insular French village in the years before the war, when "peace" was less important as a political state than as a coveted personal condition: the untroubled pinnacle of happiness. At the center of the novel is Silvio, who has returned to this small town after years away. As his narration unfolds, we are given an intimate picture of the loves and infidelities, the scandals, the youthful ardor and regrets of age that tie Silvio to the long-guarded secrets of the past.

The first collection of short stories by Irene Nemirovsky to appear in English, this volume features stories that deal with conflict between generations during the bourgeois period and the events of 1940 in France."

The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irà ̈ne Némirovskyâe(tm)s life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Française, it is a panoramic exploration of French life and a witness to the greatest horrors of the twentieth century. After four years of bloody warfare Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. No more the naà ̄ve hopes and dreams of the teenager who went to war. Attracted by the lure of money and success, Bernard embarks on a life of luxuriant delinquency supported by suspect financial dealings and easy virtue. Yet when his lover throws him off, he turns to a wholesome childhood friend for comfort. For ten years he lives the good bourgeois life, but as another war threatens everything Bernard had clung to starts to crumble, and the future for his marriage and for France looks terribly uncertain. First published posthumously in France in 1957, The Fires of Autumn is a coruscating, tragic evocation of the reality of war and its dirty aftermath, and the ugly colour it can turn a manâe(tm)s soul.

As first the Great War and then the Russian Revolution rage in the background, she grows from a lonely, melancholy child to an angry young woman intent on destruction. The Wine of Solitude is a powerful tale of an unhappy family in difficult times and a woman prepared to wreak a shattering revenge.

Taut, evocative and beautifully paced, All Our Worldly Goods points up with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close were those two wars, how history repeated itself, tragically, shockingly...