Name: The Pawn on the Chessboard
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Author: Némirovsky, Irène
ISBN: 9781481077095

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Author

Irène Némirovsky

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.21 kg.

ISBN13

9781481077095

Synopsis "The Pawn on the Chessboard"

Irène NémirovskyLe Pion sur l'échiquierSet in France during the economic crisis of the nineteen-thirties, Le Pion sur l'échiquier is an unflinching portrait of a man for whom life has lost all meaning. Son of a dying steel magnate whose investments crashed, Christophe Bohun works in an International News Agency and lives together with his dying father, wife, mistress and son, in dilapidated grandeur. At a time of external hardship, he appears to have everything and value nothing. Where his father was driven by a ruthless passion for high finance and his teenage son is eaten up with suppressed anger, Némirovsky presents us with an anti-hero whose bleak interior life is an object lesson in alienation and emotional numbness.

Irène Némirovsky

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Irène Némirovsky (Kiev, February 11, 1903-Auschwitz concentration camp, August 17, 1942) was a writer born in the Russian Empire who lived in France from her youth and wrote in French. She was deported to Germany under racial laws due to her Jewish origin, although she had converted to Catholicism in 1939, and died in Auschwitz at the age of 39.

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