Title: The Prey - Irène Némirovsky - book
Summary :
Nothing is more bitter than seeing superhuman efforts yield so little happiness. There remains only one possible consolation: to tell oneself that there is no happiness.
First published in 1938, this novel, with its Stendhalian undertones, tells the story of the social rise and fall of an ambitious young man, Jean-Luc Daguerne, whose love for his beloved will lead him to his downfall. Against this tried-and-true backdrop, Irène Némirovsky makes the words dance with humor and brilliantly plays with human passions and the cruelties of fate. But this Prey owes much to the 1930s, to their tragic energy, to all their shattered hopes. It is this mad dash toward the abyss that makes it so modern.
We have been rediscovering the work of Irène Némirovsky with pleasure since the posthumous publication of Suite française in 2004. A very prominent novelist in Paris in the 1930s, Irène Némirovsky, born in Kiev in 1903, died in Auschwitz, was arrested on July 13, 1942 by the French police.
