David Golder
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788845923555 (884592355X)
Publish date: January 1st 2009
Publisher: Adelphi
Pages no: 180
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
France,
French Literature
There are two camps on Nemirovsky. Those who see her literary worth as negligible due to her anti-Semitism. Those who see her as a victim of Auschwitz and of the highest literary merit. I must say, as the capitalist marketing machinery goes, it showed exceptional chutzpah in promoting a person who w...
Irene Nemirovsky's classic novel of ruthlessness and ambition, love and money, translated by Sandra Smith and adapted for radio by Ellen Dryden. Stark and pitiless it is too.Blurb - David Golder is a remarkable portrait of a man who is something like a monster, but whose killer instinct in business ...