by Irène Némirovsky · Adelphi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845919718
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«Il ballo» is the short novel by Irène Némirovsky, published by Adelphi in paperback (83 pages, in Italian).
The novel follows Antoinette, a teenager humiliated by the haughtiness of her mother, newly wealthy and obsessed with climbing Parisian society; she sabotages the grand ball her mother has organised to introduce herself to society. It addresses mother-daughter rivalry, social hypocrisy and revenge, with brief, direct writing.
«Il ballo» is a work originally published in 1930; this Italian edition, translated by Margherita Belardetti, belongs to the Piccola Biblioteca Adelphi collection (no. 527).
Suitable for those seeking a brief classic novel about family relationships and social criticism.
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.
