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L’Affaire Courilof

The Courilof Affair

Author : Némirovsky

Publisher : Éditions Grasset
Parution date : 1931
EAN : 9782246225720

Category : Classics

Description

A masterpiece of early 20th-century literature recently recovered from post WWII oblivion as part of Grasset’s prestigious Les Cahiers Rouges series.

Set in Kiev and St. Petersburg, L’Affaire Courilof, the story of one man’s inquisition during the Bolshevik Revolution, is both an elegy to a world lost and an unsparing observation of human motives and behavior during a period of radical upheaval in European history.

Author
Irène Némirovsky : Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903. The daughter of a wealthy banker, she received a French education. During the Bolshevik revolution, the Némirovskys fled first to Finland, then to Sweden, finally settling in France where Irene's father reestablished himself. There, Irene studied literature and started publishing novels under a pseudonym. She married, had two daughters, and continued her prolific writing career. During the Nazi occupation, Irene and her family were forced to flee to a remote seaside village. There she continued to write and publish until her arrest by French gendarmes. She was deported to Auschwitz and, despite the tireless efforts of her publisher to have her released, she died there in 1942. David Golder (Éditions Bernard Grasset, 1929), Le Bal (Éditions Bernard Grasset, 1930) and La proie (Éditions Albin Michel, 1938) are among her best-known works.