Irène Némirovsky: talent and the memory

Recently, the Adelphi has published the works of un'autrice hitherto unknown in Italy, with an extraordinary intensity narrative, marked by a cruel fate and finally rediscovered by readers and publishers worldwide. The importance of Irène Némirovsky, born in Kiev in 1903 and died in Auschwitz in 1942 , Appears high flow from one point of view literary, historical and psicanalitico: it is no coincidence if you, in the days of Remembrance, the Equal Opportunity Department at Naples has devoted the meeting on January 26 at the institute The French Grenoble, which will host the curator and daughter Denise Epstein. Tragic lives for Irène, passionate young girl of French literature, with parents rich and worldly little inclined all'affettuosità, especially the hated mother, who continually returns sublimated in all works of her daughter. The Bolscevica Revolution of 1917, prompting the family to take refuge in France, where Irène happy lives surrounded by his artistic talent, by her husband Michel Epstein and daughters Denise and Elisabeth; unfortunately the fury Nazi does not discriminate and, despite conversion to Christianity, Irène and Michel are nell'inferno deported and killed at Auschwitz. The dream is broken so dramatically, but a glimmer of hope shines demonstrating that love and beauty of words can survive the ruins. The gift of Némirovsky is contained in his splendid book, to read all of a breath, elegant and turbid: "David Golder", "The Dance", "Jezabel," "The wife of Don Giovanni", "A child prodigy" "Like flies Autumn" and "French Suite", published posthumously in France in 2004 after the discovery of the manuscript romance: kept in a suitcase by daughters and considered a valuable souvenir without literary importance, when transferred at the Mémoir de l'Édition Contemporaine, Denise the dattiloscrisse until the criticism and essayist Mjriam Anissimov it recognized the value and insisted on his publication. If I had to make a choice, I would say the entertainment world "Jezabel" and discover the mystery surrounding the murder of a young man at the hands of Gladys Eysenach, fatal woman, beautiful, adored, a victim of his worldliness and idolatry, where it's easy scorgervi the image of terrible mother of Irène. From mother to daughter and from mother to daughter, therefore, in reality as in fiction, in front of a painful past, but in confirmation and reconciliation in a bright present.

Alice Briscese Coletti