Before Auschwitz - Irene Nemirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-War France

Zusatztext "Kershaw's in-depth study allows one to appreciate Némirovsky's exceptional life and work, before Auschwitz.Essential."-- C. B. Kerr, Vassar College, Choice Informationen zum Autor Angela Kershaw is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Forgotten Engagements: Women, Literature and the Left in 1930s France (Rodopi, 2007). Klappentext Kershaw analyses Irene Némirovsky's literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France, exploring the cultural exchange between France and Russia and the political implications of Némirovsky's fiction--particularly the enthusiastic reception of her work in far-right anti-Semitic journals. Zusammenfassung Kershaw analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France, exploring the cultural exchange between France and Russia and the political implications of Némirovsky’s fiction--particularly the enthusiastic reception of her work in far-right anti-Semitic journals. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1: The Making of a Literary Reputation 2: Before David Golder 3: A Russian Soul 4: A Jewish Soul 5: Crisis and Conflict: Constructions of National Identity 6: Conclusions: Second Flowering Notes Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Angela Kershaw, Angela Kershaw, Angela (University of Birmingham Kershaw, Kershaw Angela
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.01.2011
• EAN: 9780415891035
• ISBN: 978-0-415-89103-5
• Seiten: 242
• Serien: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature; Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000