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    Il vino della solitudine
    Il vino della solitudine
    Il vino della solitudine
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    Il vino della solitudine

    By Irene Nemirovsky

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    Introduzione di Maria Nadotti
    Traduzione di Luisa Collodi
    Edizione integrale

    «Di Irène Némirovsky per Irène Némirovsky»: questa è la nota che accompagna il titolo Il vino della solitudine nell’elenco delle proprie opere che l’autrice redasse poco prima di essere arrestata, per sottolineare quanto fosse autobiografico il romanzo. È la storia dell’infelice rapporto tra una madre e una figlia, ma mentre nel precedente Jezabel la protagonista assoluta era una madre, qui la figura materna, assente e lontana, è in secondo piano, e la voce narrante del libro è quella di una figlia, Hélène, che detesta la madre con ogni fibra del suo corpo, e aspetta il momento giusto per vendicarsi della sua freddezza. Ma questo momento arriverà insieme al tempo della trasformazione della ragazza in donna: che quando scopre in sé un germe della crudeltà materna, decide di voler gustare qualcosa di molto più inebriante della vendetta.


    Irène Némirovsky
    nata a Kiev nel 1903 da una famiglia di ricchi banchieri di origini ebraiche, visse a Parigi dove, appena diciottenne, cominciò a scrivere. Nel 1929 riuscì a farsi pubblicare il romanzo David Golder, ottenendo uno straordinario successo di critica e di pubblico. Irène continuò a scrivere, ma presto fu costretta a usare un altro nome, perché gli editori, nella Francia occupata dai tedeschi, avevano paura di pubblicare i libri di un’ebrea. Nel luglio del 1942 fu arrestata e deportata ad Auschwitz, dove ad agosto, a trentanove anni, morì, lasciando incompiuto il suo ultimo capolavoro, Suite francese. La Newton Compton ha pubblicato Suite francese, Due; Come le mosche d’autunno - Il ballo; Il vino della solitudine; I cani e i lupi; Il calore del sangue - Il malinteso; Jezabel; Il signore delle anime; David Golder; I fuochi dell’autunno.
    LanguageItaliano
    PublisherNewton Compton Editori
    Release dateDec 16, 2013
    ISBN9788854148857
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    • 5/5
      There isn't enough I can say about this author! Originally penned in French in 1935, & recently translated in English. It is hard for me to decide what I enjoyed more, the subject or the prose. This is an autobiographical novel, which is what makes it so powerful & creates such an impact with the reader. It is a dismal, very real novel. Not for someone looking for a quick weekend read! This is about pain that is endured for many years throughout a young woman's life without a happy ending!You feel such sorrow for this girl Helene growing up during such a depressed time in her country, her life, & the world. Her innocence turns to rage as she matures seeking revenge, saddened by these harsh realities she learns to forgive, ultimately moving on to a life of solitude becoming who she is today....“but my solitude is powerful and intoxicating”.
    • 3/5
      This isn't one of Nemirovsky's best works. It lacks pace and content. It may be semi or partly autobiographical. There isn't one likable character in the story. The protagonist is a bit of a whinge and seeks revenge for the neglect and pain she has suffered at the hands of her parents. It does paint a bleak picture of the life of people in the higher echelons of Russian Society. The protagonist's mother is very needy, constantly bored and never happy with her lot, her life, those around her and herself. Her father, though obsessed with making money and gambling (the stock market or the Casino), lacks connection with his daughter and his wife (who has a constant lover/companion). Nemirovsky scorns the habit among well healed married women of taking a younger male lover. Outward appearances are left unspoken. Denial is omnipresent. One feels that Nemirovsky is more angry with her uncaring parents than she is with the Communists that forced them to leave Russia or the forces that caused them to move to Paris after WW1. In the end the Helene (protagonist) becomes the least likable character as she plays her mother off against her young lover causing both extreme pain as her father's finances dwindle causing his health to falter and his ultimate death.
    • 3/5
      "I'm only sixteen but my heart is filled with poison", 25 July 2015This review is from: The Wine of Solitude (Paperback)Nemirovsky's most autobiographical work, starting with the central character - Helene - as a child. Her father loves her but is far more interested in gambling, while her mother (for whom Helene is growing to increasingly hate) is preoccupied with her younger lover.As World War I and the Russian Revolution go on around them, the family are forced to relocate to St Petersburg and then Finland and France (just like the Nemirovskys actually did.)There are wonderful descriptive passages, notably of her few happy times in Finland. But life is harsh, and as Helene grows up she starts to contemplate revenge on her mother...I quite enjoyed this but it's not in the same league as the superlative 'Suite Francaise'.
    • 5/5
      This is a really powerful story about the rich and/or aristocratic as they play their way through life until the stock market crash in the 20s. It's hard to be sympathetic about her characters, and the author isn't, making even the daughter narrator quite analytic about her bad motives. In the end the daughter goes off to find her own way in life, when her father dies, abandoning her mother who she has hated from childhood. It's a bitter story, sadder because it is supposedly autobiographical. Suite Francaise is much less bitter and has more sympathetic characters.
    • 4/5
      Said to be her most autobiographical novel, the reader first meets Helene when she is only seven. The daughter of a narcissistic and extremely self involved mother and a father she loves but is himself addicted to gambling. He loves his wife to the point of self delusion. We follow Helene as she ages, learns to hate her mother, the only love in her life is from her governess Madame Rose. This is a novel about the quest for revenge against the backdrop of the Great War and the Russian Revolution. A novel about the dysfunction in a family and how it effects it members. At last it is a novel about self realization and learning if not to forget at least to forgive. Love the title of this novel and loved the very atmospheric writing.
    • 3/5
      Originally published in 1935, this is Nemirovsky’s latest novel to be translated into English. Autobiographical in nature, it is very much a portrait of the artist as a young woman.The Karol family (Boris, Bella and their daughter Helene) moves from Kiev to St. Petersburg to Finland to Paris as the events of World War I and the Russian Revolution unfold and force the family to flee. Told largely from Helene’s point of view, we see the life of a lonely girl whose only emotional stability is provided by her French governess. Helene’s father is seldom home and once even abandons his only daughter for hours while he goes inside a casino to satisfy his gambling addiction. Her totally self-absorbed mother has no maternal instinct whatsoever. She sees Helene as a nuisance and inconvenience: “A child, a living reproach, an embarrassment” (30).It is the portrayal of Bella that I found most interesting. She “only lived to enjoy herself” (26). Bella’s lover even admits, “’To Bella, relationships, simple human relationships, family ties, friendships, companionship, don’t exist’” (199). Bella longs for nothing other than wealth and lovers. Animal imagery is frequently used to describe her; her movements remind Helene of the serpents on Medusa’s head (16) and her nails are “shaped like claws” (194). What is troubling about the portrayal is that Bella has no redeeming qualities. When Helene threatens to disclose her mother’s infidelity, Bella’s reaction is extreme: “’You miserable thing, you ungrateful little hussy. You’re a horrible liar! You’re nothing but a fool, do you hear me? Nothing but a wretched idiot’” (106). She then goes on to punish her in the one way that will hurt her daughter the most.The book is a coming-of-age novel. We see Helene from the age of 8 to the age of 21. In that time she realizes many truths. Because of her dysfunctional family, it is not surprising that she concludes, “Books lie. There is no virtue, no love in the world. Every household is the same. In every family there is nothing but greed, lies and mutual misunderstanding” (104). It is also not surprising that she wants more than anything to be free: “’free from my house, my childhood, my mother, free from everything I hated, everything that weighed heavily on my heart’” (246). As she matures, she acknowledges that her past has “forged my courage and my pride” but she opts for a life of solitude, “but my solitude is powerful and intoxicating” (247).This book is not as good as "Suite Francaise", Nemirovsky’s best-known novel, but it clearly foreshadows her later work in its astute observations of people.

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