Home and Exile in Irène Némirovsky’s Novella Les Mouches d’automne (1931)

Irène Némirovsky’s novella Les Mouches d’automne (1931. Snow in Autumn, 2007) paints an effective portrait of exile, of the longing for the lost home, and the disorientation that one feels when faced with a reality that is neither recognizable nor understandable. In this article, I analyse Némirovsk...

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Autor principal:	Cenedese Marta-Laura
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Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	irène némirovsky russian emigration nostalgia chronotope crystal-image Philosophy (General) B1-5802
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:966411363dc34c1daf15f9d6562015cf2021-12-05T14:11:00ZHome and Exile in Irène Némirovsky’s Novella Les Mouches d’automne (1931)2543-887510.1515/opphil-2020-0172https://doaj.org/article/966411363dc34c1daf15f9d6562015cf2021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0172https://doaj.org/toc/2543-8875Irène Némirovsky’s novella Les Mouches d’automne (1931. Snow in Autumn, 2007) paints an effective portrait of exile, of the longing for the lost home, and the disorientation that one feels when faced with a reality that is neither recognizable nor understandable. In this article, I analyse Némirovsky’s narrative strategies in relation to spatio-temporal phenomena. My analysis is based on the work of philosophers Mikhail Bakhtin and Gilles Deleuze: Bakhtin’s chronotope and Deleuze’s crystal-image illuminate how the novella’s dominant themes, exile and nostalgia for the home, are irreducible to the clichés of a linear narration and to the simplistic dichotomy home/exile, past/present, and here/there. Instead, Némirovsky creates a productive tension of overlapping and coalescing space- and time-frames. The philosophical framework provided by Bakhtin and Deleuze is useful to unlock and make visible how this thematic complexity is reflected in the novella’s narrative structure. Indeed, my analysis of Les Mouches’s chronotopes and crystal images illuminates Némirovsky’s innovative experimentation in the creation of time–space crossings and a/synchronies, and also contributes to extend further our understanding of Némirovsky’s place within the contemporaneous literary panorama.Cenedese Marta-LauraDe Gruyterarticleirène némirovskyrussian emigrationnostalgiachronotopecrystal-imagePhilosophy (General)B1-5802ENOpen Philosophy, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 211-223 (2021)
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description	Irène Némirovsky’s novella Les Mouches d’automne (1931. Snow in Autumn, 2007) paints an effective portrait of exile, of the longing for the lost home, and the disorientation that one feels when faced with a reality that is neither recognizable nor understandable. In this article, I analyse Némirovsky’s narrative strategies in relation to spatio-temporal phenomena. My analysis is based on the work of philosophers Mikhail Bakhtin and Gilles Deleuze: Bakhtin’s chronotope and Deleuze’s crystal-image illuminate how the novella’s dominant themes, exile and nostalgia for the home, are irreducible to the clichés of a linear narration and to the simplistic dichotomy home/exile, past/present, and here/there. Instead, Némirovsky creates a productive tension of overlapping and coalescing space- and time-frames. The philosophical framework provided by Bakhtin and Deleuze is useful to unlock and make visible how this thematic complexity is reflected in the novella’s narrative structure. Indeed, my analysis of Les Mouches’s chronotopes and crystal images illuminates Némirovsky’s innovative experimentation in the creation of time–space crossings and a/synchronies, and also contributes to extend further our understanding of Némirovsky’s place within the contemporaneous literary panorama.
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title	Home and Exile in Irène Némirovsky’s Novella Les Mouches d’automne (1931)
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Home and Exile in Irène Némirovsky’s Novella Les Mouches d’automne (1931)

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