The Wine of Loneliness (nemilovsky Collection)
About This Novel
The novel "The Wine of Loneliness" was first published in 1935. The autobiographical text is both cold and hot. Nemirovsky used the protagonist Elena in the novel to tell the story of his disgusted childhood: a Russian middle-class family that suffered changes, endless escapes, a speculative businessman father, a greedy and selfish mother, absent family ties, abnormal love, and an isolated situation where only the tutor was warm. After her mother drove away her tutor, the precocious girl decided to use love to avenge her mother. When successful revenge could not stop the absurdity of her original family, she made another choice... "I am lonely, but my loneliness is bitter and intoxicating." About the author The legendary female writer Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942) was born in 1903 in Kiev to a family of Ukrainian Jewish bankers. After the October Revolution, she moved to Paris and entered the French literary scene with her debut novel "David Goedel". Her powerful writing style made it difficult for readers to believe that the author was a young woman. Later, she wrote many novels such as "The Ball", "The Kurilov Incident", "Isabel" and "Prey". After the outbreak of World War II, Nemirovsky began to flee, and creation became both difficult and dangerous. In the summer of 1942, she was murdered in Auschwitz. The unfinished and ambitious work "Suite Française" followed her eldest daughter Denis through the war. It was published in 2004 and won the Renaudot Literary Award that year. Nemirovsky became the only writer to win this award with a posthumous work.
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