by Irène Némirovsky · Adelphi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845924873
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«Jézabel» is the novel by Irène Némirovsky, published by Adelphi in paperback (194 pages, in Italian).
Accused of killing her young lover, Gladys Eysenach appears before a Parisian court while the public devours the scandal. Her pallor and silence evoke Jezebel, but she hides a truth she does not confess. The novel explores the decadence of high society, the obsession with youth, and unconfessable desires in interwar Paris.
Work originally published in 1936; this Italian edition, translated by Laura Frausin Guarino, is part of the Gli Adelphi series.
A work for readers of classics and twentieth-century French fiction, with an interest in psychological introspection and period portraiture.
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.
