Assistant in 1934 a representation of the antifascist play The Races, Irène Némirovsky warn: “Let those with ears hear!” Two years later, one of her stories was rejected for «anti-Semitism»: she intended to remind the most integrated Jews of their relationship with recent immigrants. Reflection of anxiety? Despite prestigious support, his naturalization is constantly delayed.
The rise of xenophobic propaganda and the poor success of her latest novels bring her, despite her fears, back to her favourite subject: Jewish-Russian immigration. In 1939, prudence or superstition, she receives Catholic baptism, along with her husband and daughters, and works passionately on the Charlatan, myth of Faust transposed into immigration, while The Dogs and the Wolves presents a fanciful vision of Jewish emigration, as well as some French hypocrisy. Published in May 1940, at the time of the German offensive, the novel goes unnoticed...
