Julia Elsky

Julia Elsky’s presentation will reflect the two aspects of her project. She will present research done on the French novelist, Irène Némirovsky, at the IMEC archive in Normandy, namely her letters, her journal, as well as the correspondence with her editors at the beginning of World War II. In addition, she will read from her translation of L’enfant génial, or The Child Prodigy. This talk aims to correct a false impression about Némirovsky since the publication of Suite française. She is often represented as a model of an assimilated, talented Jewish French writer who fell victim to the Nazis. But behind this, there lies a more complicated and disturbing relationship towards Judaism that is intricately linked to identity as an author.

 

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