Talk:Suite française (Irène Némirovsky)

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This article contains spoilers without warning, would somebody please tend to that?

Sorry about that. It didn't occur to me. I'll do it now. Andrew Dalby 09:01, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I wondered why I couldn't see it, and then realised I have configured my preferences not to show spoiler warnings! Anyway, I have edited one in. Please let me know if it doesn't show up. Andrew Dalby 09:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Case of Title > Upper or lower?

Why is this article, and the title of the book have the second word in lower case:

"Suite française"

Should it not be:

"Suite Française"

What's the scoop?

WikiDon (talk) 22:16, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] First book: Typed or handwritten????

In the article it says:

:...was written in microscopic handwriting in a single notebook..."

At this website, http://pagesperso-orange.fr/guillaumedelaby/3_pi_telegraph_041023.htm, it says:

"The first novel, Storm in June, was typed. The second, Dolce, written as paper became scarce, was in minute handwriting."

Which is right?

WikiDon (talk) 22:37, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The manuscript and its rediscovery

In the article is says:

"The notebook containing the two novels was preserved by her daughters but not examined until 1998."

&

"Ironically, her elder daughter, Denise, kept the notebook containing the manuscript of Suite Française for fifty years without reading it, believing that it would indeed be a journal or diary too painful to read. In the late 1990s, however, having made arrangements to donate her mother's papers to a French archive, Denise decided to examine the notebook first."

But, this website: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/guillaumedelaby/3_pi_telegraph_041023.htm, says:

"Not until the 1970s did she open the book "properly", after her Paris home was flooded and she decided to move it to the safety of a shelf.
Over the next 20 years. Miss Epstein painstakingly read and transcribed, over and over again, her mother's text."

Which is it wizit?

WikiDon (talk) 22:42, 28 February 2008 (UTC)