TMoP-tangential

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

In the current issue of TNYRoB, Coetzee reviews the English-language
publication of four early short novels by Irène Némirovsky, whose
impressive "Suite Francaise" came out in English a couple of years
ago (and was duly advertized on the p-list too - by you, Bekah?)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22071

He also analyzes some still untranslated works by her, like the
following:
"Constructing herself as an unhyphenated French novelist was only
half of Némirovsky's life-project. As she was shoring up her French
credentials she was also delving into her Russian Jewish past.
Published in 1940 just before restrictions on Jewish authors came
into effect, Les chiens et les loups (The Dogs and the Wolves) has
as its heroine Ada Stiller, a Jewish girl who grows up in the Ukraine
but moves to Paris, where she lives from hand to mouth painting scenes
of the world she has left behind, scenes too 'Dostoevskian' in tone
for French tastes."


Heikki