by Irène Némirovsky · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419346216
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Set in interwar Paris, 'Dos' by Irène Némirovsky tells the story of Marianne Segré and Antoine Carmontel. Marianne, a twenty-year-old daughter of a painter and a wealthy heiress, marries Antoine after a brief romance. However, their love is not reciprocated, and after the marriage, Antoine invests his inheritance in a paper factory and becomes the lover of Marianne's younger sister. The novel explores themes such as passion, disillusionment, marriage, and family, offering a reflection on friendship, loneliness, and the lost illusions of youth.
Irène Némirovsky was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin who was born in Kiev, then in the Russian Empire. She lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French nationality. Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws – which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism – she died in Auschwitz at the age of 39. Némirovsky is best known for the posthumously published Suite française.
