LEADER 03342nam 22005295 450 001 9910148636503321 005 20230808200207.0 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300224542 035 $a(CKB)3710000000918294 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4728129 035 $a(DE-B1597)540480 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300224542 035 $a(OCoLC)961457406 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000918294 100 $a20200229h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Némirovsky Question $eThe Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France /$fSusan Rubin Suleiman 210 1$aNew Haven, CT : $cYale University Press, $d[2016] 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (380 pages) 311 $a0-300-17196-X 311 $a0-300-22454-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tNote on Translations and Citations -- $tIntroduction: A Writer Reborn...and Debated -- $tPart I. Irčne -- $t1. The "Jewish Question" -- $t2. Némirovsky's Choices, 1920-1939 -- $t3. Choices and Choicelessness, 1939-1942 -- $tPart II. Fictions -- $t4. Foreigners and Strangers: Némirovsky's Jewish Protagonists -- $t5. Portraits of the Artist as a Young Jewish Woman -- $tPart III. Denise and Elisabeth -- $t6. Orphans of the Holocaust: Two Lives -- $t7. Gifts of Life: A Mother and Her Daughters -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography and Sources -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aA fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Irčne Némirovsky Irčne 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. 606 $aJewish women$zFrance$vBiography 606 $aJews$zFrance$vBiography 606 $aNovelists, French$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary$2bisacsh 607 $aFrance$2fast 615 0$aJewish women 615 0$aJews 615 0$aNovelists, French 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. 676 $a843/.912 676 $aB 700 $aSuleiman$b Susan Rubin, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0606818 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910148636503321 996 $aThe Némirovsky Question$92895749 997 $aUNINA