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The Pawn on the Chessboard

The Pawn on the Chessboard

Némirovsky, Irène

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1481077090
ISBN13: 9781481077095
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 1 2013
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Irène NémirovskyLe Pion sur l'échiquierSet in France during the economic crisis of the nineteen-thirties, Le Pion sur l'échiquier is an unflinching portrait of a man for whom life has lost all meaning. Son of a dying steel magnate whose investments crashed, Christophe Bohun works in an International News Agency and lives together with his dying father, wife, mistress and son, in dilapidated grandeur. At a time of external hardship, he appears to have everything and value nothing. Where his father was driven by a ruthless passion for high finance and his teenage son is eaten up with suppressed anger, Némirovsky presents us with an anti-hero whose bleak interior life is an object lesson in alienation and emotional numbness.

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