The Fires of Autumn, by Irène Némirovsky

The fires of Autumn
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A work that is recovered for the cause of the bibliographic deepening of Irene Nemirovsky, already mythical author of world literature. A novel by the writer already consolidated in her profession, loaded with that transcendence of the work that could never be presented due to the unfortunate end that awaited her before reaching forty years of age.

Written in the spring of 1942, at the same time as French suite and a few months before the author's death, and published posthumously in 1957, The autumn fires it miraculously survived the ravages of Nazism, and the recent discovery of a copiously corrected copy of the novel by Némirovsky herself gives it invaluable additional value.

Sharing that critical, almost satirical review of his time, with other of his other works of greater recognition such as French suite, riding a The autumn fires, Némirovsky again composes a sensational fresco narrative of the debasement of the Parisian bourgeoisie during this dizzying period.

After the First World War, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches with a medal, but disappointed with the lack of prospects. After the horrors witnessed at the front, he struggles to gain a foothold in the world of shady businesses that rampage in Paris.

What can attract the beautiful and sensible Thérèse of the rebellious and somewhat shameless Bernard? Despite the disappointments and suffering that this relationship can bring, Thérèse loves him and trusts that the power of love will eventually prevail.

For ten years, thanks to easy money, they both enjoy the mediocre pleasures of bourgeois life, but when the war drums beat loud again and the future becomes uncertain, everything begins to crumble.

Set in the feverish and dissolute Paris of the interwar period, The autumn fires it is not only an intimate portrait of men and women in search of an impossible freedom, but also an implacable and overwhelming portrayal of a social class prey to their privileges and customs.

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