- Author
- Irène Némirovsky
- Title
- The Dance
- Translator
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada, 2007
- Info
- p. 112, CDN $ 17.95
A reading that leaves no impression
An all too simple story which tells of a daughter’s revenge on her oppressing mother. Parallel to “Lady Jane” by Austen, reprinted on the same month and in the same series by Newton Compton, it seems to represent a follow-up, but inferior both in style and content. Némirovky’s writing is in fact smooth, but not very sharp ; a writing that glides over the events like a movie tracking shot and never dwells on details. An absolutely modern writing, which explains the great success of the author among our contemporaries, but empty and devoid of substance. A pleasant, everyday book, lacking in significance despite the intriguing story but insipid because of its flat and not very imaginative narrative. And the fact that the author died in Auschwitz does not improve her text.
Translation by Amneris Di Cesare (edited by Ester Tossi)
