LIFE OF IRENE NEMIROVSKY, THE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　The first major biography of the author of Suite
Fran?aise
　　The posthumous publication of Suite Fran?aise won Irène
Némirovsky international acclaim and brought millions of readers to
her work. But the story of her own life was no less dramatic and
moving than her most powerful fiction.
　　With her family, she escaped Russia in 1919 and settled in Paris,
where she met and married fellow Jewish émigré Michel Epstein. In
1929 she published her highly acclaimed and controversial novel
David Golder, the first of many successful books that established
her stellar reputation. But when France fell to the Nazis, her
renown did her little good: without French citizenship, she was
forced to seek refuge in a small Burgundy village with her husband
and their two young daughters. And in July 1942 Némirovsky was
arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died the following
month.
　　Drawing on Némirovsky’s diaries, previously untapped archival
material, and interviews, her biographers give us at once an
intimate picture of her life and turbulent times and an
illuminating examination of the ways in which she used the details
of her remarkable life to create “some of the greatest, most
humane, and incisive fiction [World War II] has produced” (The New
York Times Book Review).

　　Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt are coauthors of an
acclaimed biography of Roger Stéphane, who was the cofounder of
L’Observateur and a pioneer of educational television in
France. In addition to The Life of Irène Némirovsky, they
have collaborated on a number of projects pertaining to
Némirovsky’s fiction, including prefaces to new editions of her
novels. Philipponnat will curate an exhibit at the Mémorial de la
Shoah based on Némirovsky’s life and works, which will open in
Paris in October 2010.
　　Prior to their work together, Lienhardt worked as a press attaché
at the haute couture house Yves Saint Laurent, before focusing on
publishing and writing. He created and managed a Web site dedicated
to book news, Parutions.com, until 2002. Philipponant was formerly
a music critic at Compact and Cinefonia; he now
writes as a literary critic for Parutions.com and Le
Magazine des livres. He is also the author of The
Superfluous Dictionary of Classical Music.