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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 the news. “War, war, will we have war? What a strange time we live in... War, logically, seems very close. In 50 years from now, those who read the newspapers of these past few 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
