Description
| Product ID: | 9780415891035 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature |
| Title: | Before Auschwitz |
| Subtitle: | Irene Nemirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France |
| Authors: | Author: Angela Kershaw |
| Page Count: | 242 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 - |
| Description: | 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. This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, such as: the close relationship between politics and literature; the historical, political, cultural and personal legacies of the First World War; the so-called ‘crisis of the novel’ and the attempt to create and develop new narrative forms; the phenomenon of Russian emigration to Paris in the wake of the Russian Revolution and Civil War; the possibilities for the creation of a French-Jewish identity and mode of writing; and the threat of fascism and the approach of the Second World War. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-01-06 |
