In France, from 1921, Irene leads an independent life: jazz clubs, flirts, trips to cars and spas to treat his asthma. She enrolled at the Sorbonne and published her first texts randomly from journals. Certified in Russian and literature, she married in 1926 Michel Epstein, the son of a Russian banker in exile. She can finally, under a pseudonym, free herself from maternal control in L'Ennemie (1928)and Le Bal (1929), âpres caricatures of her life as a young girl.

Since 1925, she develops a "business novel" in which an entire world gravitates, mingled with doubtful bankers and women in search of pleasure." David Golder, story of a Jewish financier harassed by his wife and on the verge of death, she also does justice to his " unhappy dad". It is a smashing hit, and the subject of a lively controversy in the Jewish press. Compared to Tolstoy, Balzac or Dickens, the novel is immediately brought to the screen by Julien Duvivier. The press from all sides is courting this young mother surprised by her success...


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