The idea of writing a novel about defeat germinated during the autumn. 1940. On November 19, Irène Némirovsky written in his work diary: «If I could do the debacle as I want... Peasants, great bourgeois, officers, intellectual Jewish refugees, politicians, old men whom one forgets to be respected and abandoned like dogs, mothers who show wonders of endurance and selfishness to save their children. Those who parade and deflate by turns, youth bruised but not crushed. That it would be fun: That and the Jews, that it would be fun! The way things are going, it would be posthumous works, but finally.”


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