Tatiana Ivanovna a voué toute son existence à la famille Karine, qu’elle a vus naître, grandir et dont elle a partagé le quotidien. Lorsque la révolution russe les contraint à fuir leur domaine, elle les accompagne d’abord à Odessa, puis jusqu’à Paris, dans un modeste appartement du quartier des Ternes. Avec une finesse d’observation remarquable et une délicatesse toute tchékhovienne, Irène Némirovsky dépeint les tourments, les regrets et la mélancolie de ces exilés, derniers témoins d’un monde désormais révolu.
Notes Biographiques :
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder, All Our Worldly Goods, The Dogs and the Wolves and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, such as the posthumously published Suite Française andFire in the Blood. She was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small daughters from Paris to the safety of the small village of Issy-l'Evêque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irène began writing Suite Française. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.
