- Paperback: 434 pages
- Publisher: DENOËL (ÉDITIONS) (Nov 10 2004)
- Language: French
- ISBN-10: 2207256456
- ISBN-13: 978-2207256459
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 3.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 531 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #411,182 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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FROM EXODUS TO OCCUPATION!!!,,
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This review is from: SUITE FRANÇAISE (Mass Market Paperback)
"The Germans had moved into the lodgings and were getting to know the village. The officers walked about only in pairs, heads held high, boots striking the paving stones."Irene Nemirovsky started writing at the age of fourteen, after her French teacher died. She continued writing what would end up as the manuscript for this great book, and which was kept by her two daughters after she and her husbands' death. She in an infirmary, and he in the gas chambers. Suite Francaise is split into two parts the Exodus which is A STORM IN JUNE; and the second section DOLCE. In the first section we see the panic and confusion of the Parisians as they face the flight of the invading Germans, who were expected any minute. Some made their flight taking their most precious possessions and works of art. Their beautiful ceramics and tea ware sets. Things they had valued their entire life, like Charles Langelet who insisted on taking his expensive worldly goods; which were his heart's desires. He'd rather have them with him than have the greedy Germans take them. Then there were others like the Michauds a banker couple with a son in the army, who made their departure very simple indeed. They cleaned their home leaving it spotless as they took only the vital things for their existence, only those things that were absolutely necessary. The artist Gabriel Corte very organized in his imaginary and organized world, but quite unprepared for this sudden upheaval, just took money nothing else, probably hoping every thing will be there on his return , if there was one, and then there were the Pericands . The Pericands was a middle class Catholic family with servants so they managed their packing and exodus with precision and perception until they finally boarded the train and realized that opps!!! one very important fact completely and totally forgotten. How will this affect them??? One cannot help but feel sympathy for these Parisians in the first half of this book. In the second half DOLCE, it gets a bit quieter as the Germans are occupying France and we are introduced to a Farming village where the officers are stationed one to each home. This book is highly recommended for anyone interested in anything to do with World War 11 Reviewed by Heather Marshall Negahdar (SUGAR-CANE 14/10/06)
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Personalities and human frailities,
By Loren N. Stein - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: SUITE FRANÇAISE (Mass Market Paperback)
This is a wonderful book of characters with a true flavor of France; it has a kalidescope of characters and human frailities. To read this book is a magical journey in time to the occupation of France during World Ward II and the very special journey through a good book.
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For those interested in WWII,
By Hill Country Book Lover - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Diccionari Politic de Catalunya (Paperback)
The author brings home to those of us who have never experienced war, what it was like when the Nazis invaded Paris and the French countryside. A fictionalized account of the events that challenged both the French and the Germans.
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Les Deux Novellas,
By A .J. Casper - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: SUITE FRANÇAISE (Mass Market Paperback)
The fact that this masterpiece was not finished does not take away its beauty, or the skill that went into bringing it to fruition. Suite Francaise ranks up there on par (or above) with those forever timeless classics. I felt like a bee in a sea of nectar when I was reading "Dolce" in particular. Nemirovsky captures the human spirit - it's flaws, tragedies, conflicts, and passions. The narrative is clear and lucid, but far from simplified. It reads with a mischievous (but clean) sensuality that is generous, but never gives away too much.The book is multi-layered. It deals with war and class, the formation of allegiancies and the breaking of ties. It tackles individual strife versus collective strife. It demonstrates the conundrum of the occupied - forced to cohabitate with the conqueror. In the midst of the German invasion of France, classes meet and clash, but a very fine line divides them - something reminiscent of 9/11 and to a great extent, the more recent Katrina. Civil servants, bankers, artists, dancers, and writers collide in a mass exodus from Paris. Nemirovsky portrays the upper-class in a bitingly acerbic way, but does so skillfully and very subtly. She herself was from a wealthy banking family, and she knew the manners of the bourgeois only too well. The middle classes and the working classes are also cleverly portrayed, without the hint of pity that you might come to expect from the author. Perhaps even more interesting is Nemirovsky's personal life, and the circumstances that surrounded her at the time this book was written. She had no illusions about the hand of fate, as revealed in a letter to her editor. She was deported to Auschwitz two days later. Her husband protested frequently to the authorities, and kept her place at dinner unoccupied, thinking she would return. He, too, was driven strait to the gas chambers shortly afterward. The manuscript of Suite Francaise was discovered by her daughter years later and published in French, and then translated. The book is timeless, and one almost wishes for a biography of the author. If a translation is this good, I am tempted to wonder how it reads in the original French, and am left flabbergasted that this work is not more popular than it is today. |
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