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A NOTE ON THE TEXT from Fire in the Blood Until recently, only a partial text of Fire in the Blood was thought to exist, typed up by Irène Némirovsky's husband, Michel Epstein, to whom she often passed her manuscripts for this purpose. However, Michel's typing breaks off at the words 'I felt so old' (see p. 37), leaving the novel unfinished. Did Michel stop typing when Irène was arrested and deported to Auschwitz on 13 July 1942? Or perhaps even earlier in 1942, when she could no longer find a way to get her novels and short stories published? As readers will learn from the Preface to the French edition of this novel found at the back of the book, it is likely that Némirovsky was still working on Fire in the Blood in 1942. We know this thanks to the work of Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt, who were commissioned to write a biography of Némirovsky, and who began extensive research into her archive. Two pages of the original manuscript were found to have been in the suitcase that Némirovsky's daughter, Denise Epstein, carried with her from Issy-l'Évêque when she and her sister, Elisabeth, fled after their mother's arrest, and which contained Némirovsky's great lost novel Suite Française. And as Philipponnat and Lienhardt trawled the Némirovsky archive at the Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC), they discovered, amidst papers given by Némirovsky for safe-keeping to her editor and family friend in the spring of 1942, the rest of the missing manuscript: thirty tightly packed pages of handwriting, with very few crossings out, the beginning of which corresponded to Michel's typed version. It is an extraordinary collection of papers, which adds to our understanding of Némirovsky's oeuvre. As well as the manuscript of Fire in the Blood, it contains Némirovsky's working notebooks dating back to 1933, successive versions of several of her novels--including David Golder--as well as outlines for Captivité, the projected third part of Suite Française. <hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="noshade" size="1">

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4 2 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 10:08:55 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 11:45:03 -0800 2009 1 Fire in the Blood is a short novel by the same woman who wrote Suite Francaise. The novel is set in the years just before WWII in the same area of France as the second part of Suite Francaise . Like the larger unfinished novel, this one captures French countryside life and the varied characters tha...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Jan 23 16:02:08 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 18:38:51 -0800 2008
There's a particular tone of writing they all have in common -- maybe it's a fundamental to the way women wri...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 01:47:41 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 01:48:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 11:47:30 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 09:58:45 -0700 2008
This extremely short novel is narrated by Silvio. He spent most of his life roaming the world and having exotic mistresses. Now he has come home to roost in a hovel near a small French village. Looking back on his life, he wonde...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 25 17:38:10 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 16:59:46 -0700 2008 1 Fire in the Blood, Nemirovsky explores the transition from the passion of youth to the wisdom of old age. The n...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 11:23:22 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 11:44:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 13:46:17 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 13:52:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 16:12:02 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 12 10:25:56 -0700 2008
3/11/08: finished. The main character, Silvio, is an old man who has moved back to his small farming community after a life spent traveling the world. Silvio watches the romantic entanglements o...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 13 13:48:23 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 11 17:59:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 08:59:08 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 12:17:47 -0800 2009 The preface to the French edition is printed in the back, and it describes this book so well, I'll quote it here:
"Constructed around a gradually revealed secret, Fire in the Blood describes, as a naturalist might describe, a predatory community of extreme cunning. Behind ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 09:00:26 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 08:47:10 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 12:32:37 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 12:34:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 20:38:50 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 21:10:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:52:41 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:52:41 -0800 2009 Given the astounding success of Suite Fran��_�aise, critics were overjoyed to find another book by Ir��ne N��mirovsky, who wrote about a dozen novels and many short stories during her lifetime. (Though relatively new to American readers, N��mirovsky published a French best seller, David Go...

more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 16:55:33 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 17:13:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 11:43:03 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 11:43:15 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 11:49:01 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 11:52:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 13:09:33 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 08:03:36 -0700 2009 He lives in a rural town where there is social standing just as there is in the cities. Though there are people that don't want...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Nov 03 13:09:23 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 13:10:00 -0800 2008 4 1 true false Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 13:51:06 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 13:52:51 -0700 2008