How do we immediately recognize Irène Némirovsky, who died prematurely during deportation, rediscovered with “Suite française”
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published posthumously in 2004?
With his biting and sensitive pen, funny and serious, where cowardice and solidarity coexist.
A youthful work is worth rediscovering: “Le Bal”, a long short story published in 1929 under a male pseudonym when the author was only 26 years old.
The story ?
Antoinette is a shy teenager with a monster of a mother, a vain, cold creature, obsessed with money and who neglects her daughter.
The Kampfs have recently become rich following good investments, and Mrs. Kampf decides to give a sumptuous ball to impress the gallery and her “nouveau riche” connections, while showing off the new Parisian apartment in the beautiful neighborhoods in which she has just moved. 'install.
Two hundred hand-picked influential people are invited.
Rosine Kampf, however, decrees that her daughter, a much too fresh rival, will not be allowed to attend.
That evening, Antoinette will have to sleep in the lingerie and not show the tip of her nose.
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