Literature & Literary Studies
Understanding Irène Némirovsky
by Margaret Scanlan
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Understanding Irène Némirovsky offers a sympathetic, nuanced reading of Némirovsky’s fiction. Scanlan begins with an overview of the writer’s life—her upper-class Russian childhood, her family’s immigration to France, her troubled relationship with her neglectful mother—and then traces how such experiences informed her novels and stories, including works set in revolutionary Russia, among the nouveau riche on the Riviera, and in struggling French families and failing businesses during the Depression. Scanlan examines the Suite Française and other works that address the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism. Viewing Némirovsky as a major talent with a distinctive style and voice, Scanlan argues for Némirovsky’s keen awareness of the unsettled times in which she lived and examines the ways in which even her novels of manners analyze larger social issues.
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Reviews
“By taking care to situate Némirovsky and her novels in their multifaceted biographical, cultural, and social contexts of the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century, Margaret Scanlan offers a most engaging portrait of this singular literary artist and a lively reading of her texts.”—Nathan J. Bracher, Texas A&M University
Author Biography
Margaret Scanlan, emerita professor of English at Indiana University South Bend, is the author of Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction, Plotting Terror: Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction, and Customs and Culture of Ireland.
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- Publisher University of South Carolina Press
- Publication Date July 2018
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781611178685 / 1611178685
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 49.99 USD
- Pages200
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- EditionFirst
- Copyright Year2018
- Dimensions9X6 inches
- SeriesUnderstanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
