After the fall : war and occupation in Irène Némirovsky's Suite française /

Irène Némirovsky's war narrative, Suite franc̦aise, was discovered and published posthumously in 2004, more than sixty years after it was written. A Jewish Russian immigrant who had achieved literary stardom during the twenty years she lived in France, Némirovsky wrote her novel during the firs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bracher, Nathan, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Timely representations
  • Narrating the fall
  • Epic suffering
  • Accounting for disaster: tempête en juin and its contemporaries
  • Occupational hazards
  • Portraits of the Nazis as young men
  • Private lives and public stories
  • Reaching the rendezvous with destiny.