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vlynnk89's review against another edition
4.0
I can't say enough how much I love Nemirovsky's books. This is the second of her books that I've read and I loved it. I found myself speeding through it wondering what I'd find & she doesn't disappoint.
vhp's review against another edition
4.0
What an interesting story, but the message is even better. The story is told by an older man has settled into life and his habits and is quite happy to be left alone.
He lives in a rural town where there is social standing just as there is in the cities. Though there are people that don't want to admit this or want this to exist. The rural folks seem to have a lot of secrets and they like it that way.
Secrets are revealed in the story and it awakens fire in the blood for Salvio/Sylvestre. I would have named the book something different based on what he writes, but this was a good read with a good message.
And what we think is important when we are young isn't necessarily important to us as we grow older and mature.
He lives in a rural town where there is social standing just as there is in the cities. Though there are people that don't want to admit this or want this to exist. The rural folks seem to have a lot of secrets and they like it that way.
Secrets are revealed in the story and it awakens fire in the blood for Salvio/Sylvestre. I would have named the book something different based on what he writes, but this was a good read with a good message.
And what we think is important when we are young isn't necessarily important to us as we grow older and mature.
clairewords's review against another edition
3.0
Reviewed on Word by Word:
https://clairemca.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/fire-in-the-blood-by-irene-nemirovsky/
https://clairemca.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/fire-in-the-blood-by-irene-nemirovsky/
nferre's review against another edition
3.0
This short novella was an interesting read, especially so because I had already read Suite Francaise and enjoyed it so much. However, I don't think it was nearly as good or compelling, and I think that it was only half formulated in the author's head. It seemed that, in places, she formulated scattered thoughts, meant to be expanded upon, perhaps researched and tweaked - but never finished, of course, as she was hauled off to Auschwitz to her death
debsd's review against another edition
4.0
Lots of lovely bits of writing. Although this didn't get me the way Suite Française did, I again find myself mourning the much-too-early loss of a very skilled writer.
elizarapsodia's review against another edition
4.0
4.5
Me remito citar un fragmento de la contraportada para entrar en materia:
"La reciente publicación en Francia de esta nueva obra inédita de Irène Némirovsky ha vuelto a situar la obra y la azarosa biografía de esta gran autora en el primer plano de la actualidad. Descubierto en el IMEC (Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine) por los actuales biógrafos de Némirovsky, el manuscrito había permanecido perdido y olvidado entre los papeles de su editor de la época"
Como lo leen. Esta novela estuvo olvidada más de 70 años, cuando la autora dejó sus papeles antes de ser llevada a Auschwitz y no se supo más de ellos. Hace ya varios años, cuando apenas llegué a la bloggosfera había leído varias reseñas sobre esta autora. Me había llamado especialmente la atención pero no fue hace ya varias semanas, que cuando me voy de caza por la biblioteca de mi universidad, hay un estante donde ponen novedades que recientemente han traído. Y pues fui directo y me encontré con este libro. Inmediatamente me lo llevé a casa. Me duró pocos días y me gustó mucho.
Un libro con una historia sorprendente. Una narracion tan cuidada como la de Irène es una delicia de leer.
Reseña completa: http://rapsodia-literaria.blogspot.com/2012/11/el-ardor-de-la-sangre-de-irene.html
Me remito citar un fragmento de la contraportada para entrar en materia:
"La reciente publicación en Francia de esta nueva obra inédita de Irène Némirovsky ha vuelto a situar la obra y la azarosa biografía de esta gran autora en el primer plano de la actualidad. Descubierto en el IMEC (Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine) por los actuales biógrafos de Némirovsky, el manuscrito había permanecido perdido y olvidado entre los papeles de su editor de la época"
Como lo leen. Esta novela estuvo olvidada más de 70 años, cuando la autora dejó sus papeles antes de ser llevada a Auschwitz y no se supo más de ellos. Hace ya varios años, cuando apenas llegué a la bloggosfera había leído varias reseñas sobre esta autora. Me había llamado especialmente la atención pero no fue hace ya varias semanas, que cuando me voy de caza por la biblioteca de mi universidad, hay un estante donde ponen novedades que recientemente han traído. Y pues fui directo y me encontré con este libro. Inmediatamente me lo llevé a casa. Me duró pocos días y me gustó mucho.
Un libro con una historia sorprendente. Una narracion tan cuidada como la de Irène es una delicia de leer.
Reseña completa: http://rapsodia-literaria.blogspot.com/2012/11/el-ardor-de-la-sangre-de-irene.html
teachergabi's review against another edition
4.0
"The flesh is easy to satisfy. It is the heart that is insatiable, the heart that needs to love, to despair, to burn with any kind of fire... That was what we wanted. To burn, to be consumed, to devour our days just as fire devours the forest."
My goodness, for so short a book (129 pages), it once again does what Némirovsky has a genius for doing : taking the essence of a people, a place, and folding generations' worth of passion and folly, wisdom and grace, in an inch's worth of paper. And our hearts are left quickened for the journey.
My goodness, for so short a book (129 pages), it once again does what Némirovsky has a genius for doing : taking the essence of a people, a place, and folding generations' worth of passion and folly, wisdom and grace, in an inch's worth of paper. And our hearts are left quickened for the journey.
adt's review against another edition
4.0
After reading "Suite Francaise" by the same author, I wasn't expecting something superior. The author seems to capture provincial France the best I can determine from living in the provincial areas for very short stints. Perhaps it wouldn't be so enjoyable without that context? The unraveling of "long-guarded secrets of the past" is well-done and keeps the readers' interest. Most interesting where the authors' insights on love, life and compromises. Her perspective is quite amazing as she only lived 39 years.
jeanetterenee's review against another edition
4.0
"Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns out."
This extremely short novel is narrated by Silvio. He spent most of his life roaming the world and having exotic mistresses. Now he has come home to roost in a hovel near a small French village. Looking back on his life, he wonders why he ever felt the need to wander. All he wants now is to be left alone to drink his wine, write, and watch the seasons pass. He tells the stories of youth and passion and betrayal among some of the locals, both past and present. The book ends rather abruptly, which was a bit of a bummer, but it's still worth reading.
The best thing about this book is not the stories, but the portrait of French country life in the time between world wars. Very gossipy, provincial people, determined to remain insular and even overlook crimes in order to keep the peace and prevent outside interference. I really got a sense of place and time and enjoyed her descriptions of simple things like the colors of the sky or walking through thick leaves in the fall.
This extremely short novel is narrated by Silvio. He spent most of his life roaming the world and having exotic mistresses. Now he has come home to roost in a hovel near a small French village. Looking back on his life, he wonders why he ever felt the need to wander. All he wants now is to be left alone to drink his wine, write, and watch the seasons pass. He tells the stories of youth and passion and betrayal among some of the locals, both past and present. The book ends rather abruptly, which was a bit of a bummer, but it's still worth reading.
The best thing about this book is not the stories, but the portrait of French country life in the time between world wars. Very gossipy, provincial people, determined to remain insular and even overlook crimes in order to keep the peace and prevent outside interference. I really got a sense of place and time and enjoyed her descriptions of simple things like the colors of the sky or walking through thick leaves in the fall.