by Irene Némirovsky · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476690413
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«El baile» is the novel by Irène Némirovsky, published by Muchnik Editores in paperback (136 pages, in Spanish).
The Kampfs, a wealthy family, organize a ball in their Paris apartment for two hundred guests, seeking recognition from French high society. Their teenage daughter, humiliated by her mother on the eve of the party, responds with a silent revenge that condenses the difficult mother-daughter relationship and the craving for social recognition.
Originally published in French as «Le Bal» in 1930, this 1987 Spanish edition includes the translation by Magdalena Guilló and belongs to the Literatura collection.
For readers of French literature and short twentieth-century novels.
Irène Némirovsky was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin who was born in Kiev, then in the Russian Empire. She lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French nationality. Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws – which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism – she died in Auschwitz at the age of 39. Némirovsky is best known for the posthumously published Suite française.
