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In 1941, Irene Némirovsky Sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Némirovsky's death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the existing two sections of her planned novel sequence, Suite Française, would be rediscovered and hailed as a masterpiece.
Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Française falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Suite Française is a novel that teems with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. However, amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.
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Correspondence, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, History, Historical fiction, German occupation, Literature, Historical - General, Fiction - Historical, German Occupation of France (1940-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01353176, Large type books, French fiction, Translations into Vietnamese, Guerre, 1939-1945 (Mondiale, 2e), Romans, nouvelles, Histoire, France, fiction, Fiction, historical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military, World war, 1939-1945--france--fiction, Pq2627.e4 s8513 2006, 000119625, 843/.912, World literature, Fiction subjects, Peoples & cultures - fictionPeople
Irène Némirovsky, Charlotte Péricand, Hubert Péricand, Philippe Péricand, Gabriel Corte, Charles Langelet, Maurice Michaud, Jeanne Michaud, Jean-Marie Michaud, the Sabarie family, Madeleine Sabarie, Lucile Angellier, Bruno von Falk, Benoît Sabarie, BonnetTimes
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Écrit dans le feu de l'Histoire, Suite française dépeint presque en direct l'Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un désordre tragique des familles françaises de toute sorte, des plus huppées aux plus modestes. Avec bonheur, Irène Némirovsky traque les innombrables petites lâchetés et les fragiles élans de solidarité d'une population en déroute. Cocottes larguées par leur amant, grands bourgeois dégoûtés par la populace, blessés abandonnés dans des fermes engorgent les routes de France bombardées au hasard... Peu à peu l'ennemi prend possession d'un pays inerte et apeuré. Comme tant d'autres, le village de Bussy est alors contraint d'accueillir des troupes allemandes. Exacerbées par la présence de l'occupant, les tensions sociales et frustrations des habitants se réveillent...Roman bouleversant, intimiste, implacable, dévoilant avec une extraordinaire lucidité l'âme de chaque Français pendant l'Occupation (enrichi de notes et de la correspondance d'Irène Némirovsky), Suite française ressuscite d'une plume brillante et intuitive un pan à vif de notre mémoire.
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