Born in 1903, Irène Némirovsky was fifteen years old when the revolutionary troubles drove her out of Russia with her family. It was in Paris, at the age of eighteen, that she published her first tales. A month later, an implacable novel, immediately translated worldwide and brought to the screen, made his fame: David Golder.
Impossible to reduce the novelist to the posthumous and universal success of Suite française, cruel and funny chronicle of the Exodus and the Occupation, but also expression of a reluctance to "live, think, love with others, according to a state, a country, a party".
