David Golder

David Golder

by Irene Nemirovsky
David Golder

David Golder

by Irene Nemirovsky

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Overview

1929 L'action se situe en 1926, une période de spéculation intense qui se terminera dans le krach boursier de 1929. Le roman commence par une discussion entre deux associés, David Golder, 68 ans, et Marcus, dans laquelle on perçoit l'âpreté des enjeux capitalistes. David, riche, et juif (comme l'auteur), nous est décrit comme un être rapace et implacable. Il met fin à son association avec Marcus et, au matin, il apprend son suicide. Après l'enterrement, il rejoint sa femme et sa fille à Biarritz, toutes deux écervelées, oisives et dépensières, ne pensant qu'à tirer de l'argent de Golder. Harassé de fatigue, ce dernier est victime d'une deuxième crise d'angine de poitrine... L'auteur, dans ce roman et dans d'autres, n'est pas tendre dans son portait du juif affairistes, et il est parfois difficile de se rappeler que l'auteur est morte à Auschwitz. Cet antisémitisme latent, caractéristique d'une époque mais plus étonnant au cas présent, a fait l'objet de de divers études, polémiques et commentaires.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781502351975
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 09/12/2014
Pages: 124
Sales rank: 540,691
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d)
Language: French

About the Author

Born in Kiev in 1903, Irène Némirovsky fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became an acclaimed novelist. She wrote over 10 novels, including an unfinished magnum opus Suite Française which was published posthumously in France in 2004 and has become an international bestseller. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

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‘No,’ said Golder, tilting his desklamp so that the light shone directly into the face of Simon Marcus who was sitting opposite him on the other side of the table. For a moment Golder observed the wrinkles and lines that furrowed Marcus’s swarthy face whenever he moved his lips or closed his eyes, like the ripples on dark water when the wind blows across it. But his hooded eyes with their Oriental langour remained calm, bored and indifferent. A face as unyielding as a wall. Golder carefully lowered the lamp’s flexible metal stem.
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