A review by christiek
David Golder, the Ball, Snow in Autumn, the Courilof Affair by Irène Némirovsky

4.0

These were all depressing, thoughtful and thought provoking. Lots of death and end of life contemplation. Normally I have a hard time reading about truly unpleasant protagonists (life is too short to spend time with unpleasant people real or imaginary), but she pulls it off. Most of the characters in these novels are exceptionally spoiled, entitled and unpleasant, but she writes them so beautifully, I almost sympathize with them. I really like that Irene Nemirovsky. It makes me wonder at how much less rich the world is as a result of tyranny (Nemirovsky died in a Nazi concentration camp).