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Chapter 3: Literary Beginnings

After the arrival in France of his grandparents Iona and Rosa, evacuated from Crimea, Irène Némirovsky stages the life of a Russian family exiled to Paris in "La Niania"
This tale will be published on May 9, 1924 in Le Matin, in the section directed by Colette.

" If happiness does not exist, there is at least a fairly accurate counterfeit down here – create; create life or art, it doesn’t matter, creating is a pleasure more than human, creating is the pastime of the gods..." Notebook 1918-1942. (1920)


Manuscript of La Niania .
© Fonds Irène Némirovsky/ IMEC



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