TMoP-tangential

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I finished Suite Francaise a few weeks ago and loved it.  Very tragic that it wasn't finished.  Someone posted something about Roberto Bolano's upcoming posthumous work that ends in a similarly (but, apparently, deliberately) abrupt manner -- it was hard not to think of Nemirovsky, but also of other artists such as Stanley Kubrick, whose careers ended mid-work.  Let's hope this fate doesn't befall TRP. 

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>Sent: Nov 13, 2008 10:08 AM
>To: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
>Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: TMoP-tangential
>
>Very interesting, Heikki - I've never heard that Nemirovsky was  
>interested at all in her ethnic origins,  only that she seemingly  
>wanted to close the personal door on them.   Too bad that the work  
>noted has not been translated.
>
>Bekah
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>On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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
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