by Irène Némirovsky · Salamandra Bolsillo · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788498385793
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Irène Némirovsky's most personal and autobiographical novel, 'The Wine of Loneliness,' published in 1935, tells the story of a wealthy Russian family seeking refuge in Paris. The plot focuses on a young woman's revenge against her mother, a theme the author had already explored in 'The Ball.' Through the eyes of young Elena, the novel describes her parents' marriage and her growth without maternal love, except for that of her French governess.
The story follows Elena from her childhood in Ukraine to her adolescence in Paris, after her family flees the Russian Revolution. Elena's mother, a frivolous woman of noble origin, despises her Jewish husband and her daughter. After the governess's death, Elena's life becomes even more complicated when her mother installs her lover in the house. However, Elena becomes a beautiful young woman and decides to take revenge when she realizes she attracts her mother's lover.
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.
