by Irène Némirovsky · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070443932
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«Le malentendu» is the novel by Irène Némirovsky, published by Folio in paperback (192 pages, in French).
Yves Harteloup, a man of bourgeois origin fallen on hard times and marked by war, spends his summer on the Basque coast and falls in love with Denise, a married woman from his former circle. The love is reciprocated, but passion holds dangers. The novel portrays the joy and risks of happiness in the twenties.
Irène Némirovsky's first novel, originally published in 1926. This 2011 Folio edition includes a preface by Olivier Philipponnat.
For readers of classic fiction and French literature, especially those who appreciate stories of passion set in the twenties.
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.
