 | After the Fall: War and Occupation in Irène Némirovsky''s Suite française Subjects: Némirovsky Irène 1903–1942. Suite française; World War 1939–1945 -- France -- Literature and the war; France -- History -- German occupation 1940–1945; War in literature; In this work, the first critical monograph on Suite française, Nathan Bracher shows how, first amid the chaos and panic of the May-June 1940 debacle, and then within the unsettling new order of the German occupation, Némirovsky's novel casts a particularly revealing light on the behavior and attitudes of the French as well as on the highly problematic interaction of France's social classes |
