Mansfield must surely have been the K. M. whose diary the novelist Irène Némirovsky
carried out to read in the French pine woods, near the edge of the German-occupied zone, while she was writing her...
Textual Production
Cecily Mackworth
The title was her publisher's. She wanted to call it Ship of France from Walt Whitman
's O star, O ship of France, beat back and battered long.
Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet.
37n
She was asked to write this...
Timeline
13 July 1942: French, Jewish, stateless, Russian-born novelist...
Writing climate item
13 July 1942
French, Jewish, stateless, Russian-born novelist Irène Némirovsky
was seized and taken to the concentration camp at Pithiviers in the Loiret département of France, en route for Auschwitz
in Poland.
After March 2006: Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française, an unfinished,...
Writing climate item
After March 2006
Irène Némirovsky
's Suite Française, an unfinished, two-part novel about the Nazi
occupation of France in 1941-2, reached print in English translation sixty-four years after composition.
Texts
Némirovsky, Irène. Suite Française. Translator Smith, Sandra, Vintage Books, 2007.