The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter (New York Review Books Classics) Review

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The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter (New York Review Books Classics) ReviewElisabeth Gille was five years old when her mother, Irène Némirovsky, was deported to Auschwitz. In her fifties, Gille finally faced her loss by writing this imagined biography of the famous French writer.
Gille's intense, romantic love for the enigmatic image of her mother - and her anger at Némirovsky for taking no measures to escape her fate - make this a fascinating psychological study of Gille, as well as a moving portrait of Irène Némirovsky.
Quite boldly Gille writes a first-person narrative, as if in Némirovsky's voice. But far from affecting her mother's edgy, cynical style, she writes thrillingly, lyrically, about Némirovsky's Russian childhood and girlhood, her family's escape from the Bolsheviks, her impassioned reading in several languages, her friendships and flirtations, her joys as wife and mother and her great literary successes. When the Nazis occupy France and the persecution of the Jews escalates, Gille's style hardens. With bitter clarity she recounts the historical events that entrapped Némirovsky and other Jews.
Gille has a real feel for the drama of history. Riots, pogroms, assassinations, political injustices, fortunes won and lost come alive under her pen. I loved her descriptions of the decayed grandeur of the Russian émigrés in Paris, for example.
There's an element of revenge in The Mirador, and the reader can't help but applaud it. Gille paints a dark picture of Némirovsky's betrayal by her beloved France and by the critics and publishers who adored her in good times and disowned her in bad.
I expected a bit more material about Némirovsky's terrible relationship with her awful mother. For more on this intriguing subject, you may wish to read The Life of Irène Némirovsky by Philipponnat and Lienhardt. The two biographies, factual and emotional, complement each other to perfection.
This wonderful New York Review Book edition of The Mirador is enriched by an introduction and interview by one of Némirovsky's protégés, René de Ceccatty. Highly recommended.The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter (New York Review Books Classics) Overview

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