by Irène Némirovsky · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498384031
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«El vino de la soledad» is Irène Némirovsky's autobiographical novel, published by Salamandra in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Elena from Ukraine to the Paris of the Russian Revolution, where her family takes refuge. Her frivolous, disdainful mother despises her husband and daughter; the death of the governess leaves Elena helpless when her mother's lover enters the house. Over time, Elena discovers she attracts that man and sees in it her revenge.
The work was originally published in 1935 as «Le Vin de solitude»; the Spanish translation is by José Antonio Soriano Marco. It belongs to the Salamandra Narrativa collection.
For readers of twentieth-century classic novels, coming-of-age stories, and interwar French literature.
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.
