A review by rdebner
David Golder by Irène Némirovsky

4.0

A sad commentary about money and its effects on human relationships. While I can imagine that the main character might not have always been the most likeable person, by the time that the reader meets him, he is eminently sympathetic and perhaps more than a little pathetic. A cautionary tale for those with their heads too buried in business to see the world clearly around them, but also a portrait of a time and place. It reminded me of Balzac in terms of her portraiture of a milieu and the acuity of her analysis of that milieu.