In France, from 1921, Irene leads an independent life: jazz clubs, flirts, car trips and water towns to cure his asthma. She enrolled at the Sorbonne and published her first texts in random journals. Certified in Russian and letters, she married in 1926 Michel Epstein, the son of an exiled Russian banker. She can finally, under a pseudonym, break free from her maternal The Enemy (1928)and The Dance (1929), harsh caricatures of her young life.

Since 1925, she is maturing a “business novel” where gravites “ a whole world mixed with dubious bankers, women in search of pleasure”. In David Golder, story of a Jewish financier harassed by his wife and watched for death, she also does justice to his ‘Wretched Dad’. It is a smashing tobacco, 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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