The Pawn on the Chessboard
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781481077095
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Irène NémirovskyLe Pion sur l'échiquierSet in France during the economic crisis of the nineteen-thirties, Le Pion sur l'échiquier is an unflinching portrait of a man for whom life has lost all meaning. Son of a dying steel magnate whose investments crashed, Christophe Bohun works in an International News Agency and lives together with his dying father, wife, mistress and son, in dilapidated grandeur. At a time of external hardship, he appears to have everything and value nothing. Where his father was driven by a ruthless passion for high finance and his teenage son is eaten up with suppressed anger, Némirovsky presents us with an anti-hero whose bleak interior life is an object lesson in alienation and emotional numbness.
| ISBN-13 | 9781481077095 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1481077090 |
| Weight | 0.46 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.00 x 0.46 x 8.00 In |
| List Price | $9.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 184 pages |
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Published On | 2013-01-01 |
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