Women of Paris

Portraits
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5095-7591-6
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 92 Seiten

This captivating journey through Parisian women's writing brings together vivid and pithy pieces from Irène Némirovsky, including a self-portrait. With perception and wit, Christine de Pisan, George Sand, Anna de Noailles, Émilie Plater and others – determined women who were entirely sure about what their vocation in life was – are all brought to life by the bestselling author of Suite Française. It is a small jewel glowing brightly among the illustrious oeuvre of one of our most beloved twentieth-century novelists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nemirovsky, Irene

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Olivier Philipponnat

THREE SCENES
The Life of Empress Joséphine
Women of Paris, Women of Letters
Emilia Plater

A SELF-PORTRAIT
A Physical Portrait of Myself

THREE REVIEWS
Une femme qu'a le cœur trop petit by Fernand Crommelynck
The Mother by Pearl S. Buck
Two English Novels

Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Born in Kiev in 1903, Irène Némirovsky fled the Russian Revolution in 1918 with her family and settled in France. The bestselling author of many acclaimed novels, including the posthumously published Suite Française, she died in Auschwitz in 1942.