Suite Française, Nouvelle Edition
Préface d'Olivier Philipponnat, Présentation de Teresa Lussone
by Irène Némirovsky
Description
A new version of Suite française, the one that the author would have liked to publish.
Written in the crossfire of History, Suite française in an almost live description of the exodus of June 1940, whose tragic chaos jumbled together French families from all walks of life, from the poshest to the most modest. It was precisely this history that would determine the fate of the novelist Irène Némirovsky. At the time of her arrest in July 1943, she was in the midst of writing a new novel, which would remain unfinished. That manuscript, as well as notes and other pieces of writing, was entrusted to her children in a precious suitcase. Years later, her daughter Denise Epstein exhumed from it the novel Suite française, which was published in 2004 and was a resounding international success.
Irène Némirovsky had the habit of revising her texts, even in the midst of writing, and the treasure trove also contained a “2nd corrected version” of this literary monument. A new version that Denoël is now publishing under the title Suite française: The Recovered Manuscript [Suite française, le manuscrit retrouvé]. In this version, the first part, entitled Storm in June, has been largely reworked.
The presentation by Teresa Lussone retraces the genesis of the novel. By studying the transition from one version to the next, she unveils the author at work and reveals the essence of the creative process. A magnificent homage to one of France’s greatest novelists: an unremitting and passionate writer with a talent for grasping and rendering idiosyncrasies and weaknesses; a witness despite herself of humanity at its worst.
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- Publisher Editions Denoël
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- Publication Country or regionFrance
- Pages608
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
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