Contents @toc2:Acknowledgments xx Preface xxx[TK] Introduction 1 1. From Kiev to Paris 00 2. The Promised Land 000 3. David Golder 000 4. Profession: Woman of Letters 000 5. The Writer's Craft 000 6. The Temptation of Christianity and the Persistence of Judaism 000 7. Issy-L'Eveque 000 8. "What is this country doing to me?" 000 9. "Irene gone today" 000 Conclusion 000 Notes 000 Bibiography of Irene Nemirovsky's Works 000
Jonathan Weiss is Professor of French Language and Literature at Colby College. In 1996, he met Irène Némirovsky's two daughters. With their help, he was able to consult all the documents that their mother had passed on to them. This biography is the result of that research and of close textual analysis of Némirovsky's literary work.
"In Nemirovsky's search to reconcile national, religious, and cultural identities, Weiss recognizes the struggle of many immigrants in France today. For this reason, more general readers may enjoy this biography as much for the fresh perspectives it bring to questions of national and cultural identity currently under debate in the Francophone world as for the insights it brings to Nemirovsky's life and literature. Scholars will value the complete bibliography of her published and unpublished works, Weiss's attention to the present controversy regarding Nemirovsky's anti-Semitism, and his sensitive and well informed readings of her work, including Suite francaise. This critical volume provides solid evidence that Nemirovsky should be included among the most important writers of twentieth-century French fiction." - Hollie Markland Harder, French Review "Immensely clarifying ... As Weiss's important and prodigiously researched biography makes clear, Nemirovsky was the very definition of a self-hating Jew." - The New Republic "[An] informative work, neatly structured to bring out the dramatic and tragic fate of a woman who, as [Weiss] puts it, 'died without ever having resolved the question of where she belonged.' It is a book well worth reading." - Australian Book Review "This short critical biography by Weiss, an expert on contemporary French literature, is a fine introduction to her work." - Publishers Weekly "[A] brief, but intensely thought-provoking biography by Jonathan Weiss." - The San Francisco Chronicle
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