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Chapter 3: Literary Beginnings

After the arrival in France of her grandparents Iona and Rosa, evacuated from Crimea, Irène Némirovsky portrays the life of a Russian family exiled to Paris in “La Niania”
This story will be published on 9 May 1924 in Le Matin, in the section headed by Colette.

“ If happiness does not exist, there is at least a fairly accurate counterfeit here--creating; creating life or art, whatever, creating is more of a pleasure than human, creating is the pastime of the gods...” Notebook 1918-1942. (1920)


Manuscript of La Niania .
© Irène Némirovsky Fund / IMEC



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