In France, from 1921, Irene leads an independent life: jazz clubs, flirts, trips to cars and spa towns to treat his asthma. She enrolls at the Sorbonne and publishes her first texts randomly from journals. Certified in Russian and literature, she marries in 1926 Michel Epstein, son of a Russian banker in exile. She can finally, under a pseudonym, free herself from the maternal hold in The Enemy (1928)and Le Bal (1929), almost caricatures of her life as a young girl.

Since 1925, she develops a 'business novel' in which a whole world gravitates, mingled with doubtful bankers, women in search of pleasure. David Golder, story of a Jewish financier harassed by his wife and on the lookout for death, it 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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