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Chapter 5: Will we have war?

March 14, 1938, a day after the Anschluss, Irène Némirovsky interrupts his work on
"Hopes" to comment on current events. «War, war, will we have war? What strange times we live in... War, logically, seems very close. In 50 years from now, those who read the newspapers of recent days will be able to believe that people communicate with fever the news. Not at all. The most complete indifference [...]."

Notes on Hopes , 1938.
© Fonds Irène Némirovsky / IMEC

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