by Irène Némirovsky · Salamandra Bolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498387339
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«El baile» is the short novel by Irène Némirovsky, published by Salamandra Bolsillo in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
The Kampfs live in a luxurious apartment in Paris and long to be accepted by French high society; they prepare a grand ball. Antoinette, their fourteen-year-old daughter, hurt by being forbidden to attend, decides to rebel against her mother with an impulsive gesture that changes everything. It portrays social vanity, the mother-daughter relationship, and the entry into adulthood.
Novel originally published in 1930, translated by Gemma Moral Bartolomé. It is number 206 in the Salamandra Narrativa collection.
Recommended for readers aged 16 and over interested in twentieth-century classics and coming-of-age novels.
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.
