https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Ambiguities-of-Irene https://booksandideas.net/The-Ambiguities-of-Irene 2013-04-18T12:10:25Z text/html en Olivier Philipponnat History judaism la suite gauche literature the interwar period Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah <p>After being readmitted to French literary heritage following the international success of <i>Suite française</i> (2004), Irène Némirovsky's work provides a unique insight into the intellectual landscape of the inter-war period, particularly with regard to the crisis of the novel, the new <i>mal du siècle</i> and the Jewish literary renaissance. However, Angela Kershaw's recent book on the author shows the difficulties involved in reading and understanding a book once the Holocaust has changed our perception of it.</p>