Elisabeth Gille (1937–1996)
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- Kanoninen nimi
- Gille, Elisabeth
- Virallinen nimi
- Epstein, Elisabeth Leone
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- Gille, Elisabeth
- Syntymäaika
- 1937-05-20
- Kuolinaika
- 1996-09-30
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- France
- Maa (karttaa varten)
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- 7e arrondissement, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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- 20e arrondissement, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Holocaust survivor - Suhteet
- Nemirovsky, Irene (mother)
Epstein, Denise (sister) - Organisaatiot
- Editions Denoël (Directrice littéraire)
Editions Flammarion (Directrice littéraire)
Editions Rivage (Directrice littéraire) - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Élisabeth Gille, born Élisabeth Epstein in Paris, was a French translator and writer best-known for Le Mirador: Mémoires rêvés (1992), her biography of her mother Irène Némirovsky. Élisabeth was the younger daughter of Némirovsky, a French-Russian-Jewish émigré writer who achieved significant success as a novelist in the 1930s, and her husband Michel Epstein. The couple were deported separately from France during World War II by the Nazis to the Auschwitz death camp in 1942; neither returned. Némirovsky's novels fell into obscurity, but in 2004, her Suite française, which had remained until then in manuscript form, was published for the first time. It became a bestseller and the renewed interest in the author led in 2011 to the English translation of Gille’s biography as The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irène Némirovsky by Her Daughter. Élisabeth also wrote the novel Un paysage de cendres (literal meaning, A Landscape of Ashes, but titled Shadows of a Childhood in English, 1996), a fictionalized account of her experiences as a Jewish child hidden during the German Occupation and then adopted by non-Jewish Resistance fighters. That work portrayed the incomplete understanding of the specificity of the Holocaust even among those sympathetic to its victims. She also wrote about her battle with cancer in Le Crabe sur la banquette arrière (The Crab on the Back Seat, 1994).
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A very moving, sad, and fascinating memoir/biography of Irène Némirovsky written by the daughter who was 5 at the time her mother was arrested. When Gille wrote this, she was middle-aged and had outlived her mother by a decade.
While this is "imagined"--and is the kind of thing that usually bothers me--it is not unsourced. Gille had her mother's journals as well as novels at her disposal, as well as the works of others (all cited in the Acknowledgements), as well as the memory of her sister, who was 7 years older and had many more memories.
This is so well done, and is both fascinating and hard to read as the reader already knows where it goes. I am sure it was incredibly difficult to write as well. Gille wrote this knowing her parents' naivete (though not her grandfather's--Nemirovsky's father intended to leave for New York and wanted their family to go also, but unexpectedly died before he could leave), and writing it out as she did must have been incredibly difficult but also perhaps cathartic in some way.… (lisätietoja)