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boomt's review against another edition
3.0
J'ai lu Suite Française en anglais il y a cinq ans, et je l'ai trouvé lyrique et touchant. David Golder était le premier roman de Némirovsky qui a eu un grand succès. Golder est un financier juif, presque stéréotypé. Il est orgueilleux, cupide et égoïste. Il n'aime que sa belle fille de 18 ans qui est frivole et gâtée. Mais elle ne le voit jamais sauf pour demander de l'argent. Le roman est une fable tragique. La chute de Golder et sa famille se déroule en même temps que l'effondrement des marchés financiers.
Même si Némirovsky était juive, la répresentation de Golder et de son ami Soifer est extrème et presque antisémite. Je ne peux aimer aucun des personnages du roman, mais l'écriture de Némirovsky est belle et claire.
Même si Némirovsky était juive, la répresentation de Golder et de son ami Soifer est extrème et presque antisémite. Je ne peux aimer aucun des personnages du roman, mais l'écriture de Némirovsky est belle et claire.
canadianbookworm's review against another edition
4.0
This 1929 second novel by Nemirovsky was lauded at the time of its initial publication. The author based the work partly on her own experiences and knowledge of the financial world. The main character is a Jewish financier, disregarded by his wife and valued only for his gifts of money by his daughter. He does not have any remorse for those in need and refuses to help his partner when he comes to him for help. As he fights for his business to survive in a difficult economic time, he also finds that the strain has undermined his health. He has to decide how he really feels about those closest to him and what this means for him in terms of actions.
lcsmcat's review against another edition
4.0
Not as good as Les Chiens et les loups but an important work.
lnatal's review against another edition
2.0
Irene Nemirovsky's classic novel of ruthlessness and ambition, love and money, translated by Sandra Smith and adapted for radio by Ellen Dryden.
David Golder is a remarkable portrait of a man who is something like a monster, but whose killer instinct in business is based not in self-interest but in the almost pathological desire to provide for a family he knows does not care for him.
Episode One: 1929, France. David Golder, a self-made businessman of 68, is rich and ruthless- and woe betide anyone who tries to cross him. Even if that person is his oldest friend and associate, Simeon Marcus. But on this occasion Golder's implacability in his business dealings has unforeseen and tragic results.
David Suchet stars as Golder, with Anna Francolini (recently winner of the TMA/Stage award for the best stage performance of 2009) as Irene Nemirovsky.
Nemirovsky was 26 when David Golder was published in 1929, and had made the same journey from a Ukrainian/Jewish background to France and wealth as her protagonist. The novel was a huge and immediate success .A film followed in 1930 but this is the first adaptation of the novel the Nemirovsky estate have allowed since. Irene Nemirovsky died in Auschwitz in 1942. She was 39.
David Golder..............David Suchet
Nemirovsky...............Anna Francolini
Marcus.....................Robin Harvey Edwards
Mme Marcus.............Julia Swift
Directed by Peter Farago.
BROADCASTS
Mon 29 Mar 201010:45BBC Radio 4
Mon 29 Mar 201019:45BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rlb2r
David Golder is a remarkable portrait of a man who is something like a monster, but whose killer instinct in business is based not in self-interest but in the almost pathological desire to provide for a family he knows does not care for him.
Episode One: 1929, France. David Golder, a self-made businessman of 68, is rich and ruthless- and woe betide anyone who tries to cross him. Even if that person is his oldest friend and associate, Simeon Marcus. But on this occasion Golder's implacability in his business dealings has unforeseen and tragic results.
David Suchet stars as Golder, with Anna Francolini (recently winner of the TMA/Stage award for the best stage performance of 2009) as Irene Nemirovsky.
Nemirovsky was 26 when David Golder was published in 1929, and had made the same journey from a Ukrainian/Jewish background to France and wealth as her protagonist. The novel was a huge and immediate success .A film followed in 1930 but this is the first adaptation of the novel the Nemirovsky estate have allowed since. Irene Nemirovsky died in Auschwitz in 1942. She was 39.
David Golder..............David Suchet
Nemirovsky...............Anna Francolini
Marcus.....................Robin Harvey Edwards
Mme Marcus.............Julia Swift
Directed by Peter Farago.
BROADCASTS
Mon 29 Mar 201010:45BBC Radio 4
Mon 29 Mar 201019:45BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rlb2r
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