David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn & The Courilof Affair (2008) Read Online Free PDF

disputes (accepted by Germany 1929). First Five-Year Plan in USSR. Stalin
defacto
dictator and object of nationwide cult. First Stalinist show trials (to 1933). Federation des Societes Juives de France (FSJF) established to care for needs of French Jewish community. Last performances of the Ballets Russes include Stravinsky’s
Apollon musagete
(1928) and Prokofiev’s
L’Enfant prodigue
(1929), starring Serge Lifar and with choreography by Balanchine. Ravel:
Bolero.
    Poincare retires. Young Plan: revised war reparations agreement; Allies to evacuate Rhineland by June 1930. Wall Street crash. Sheltering behind a high-tariff barrier, France appears at first immune from the consequences of the Depression. Forcible collectivization of agriculture begins in USSR: around ten million peasants killed, sent to concentration camps or exiled in the process. Death of Diaghilev. Salvador Dali arrives in Paris, holding one-man show. Maurice Chevalier, “Louise.”
    The 1930s see increasingly unstable government in France, with 20 changes of premier. Construction of Maginot line begins (to 1939). Cocteau directs
Le Sang d’un poete.
DATE
AUTHOR’S LIFE
LITERARY CONTEXT
1931
Les Mouches d’automne
(The Flies of Autumn, English translation
Snow in Autumn)
is first published by Simon Kra (May), then Grasset (December). Premiere of film version of
Le Bal
by Wilhelm Thiele with the debutante actress Daniele Darrieux (September 11).
Claudel:
Le Soulier de satin.
Saint-Exupery:
Vol de nuit.
Nizan:
Aden, Arabie.
Maurois’ life of Turgenev. J.-R. Bloch:
Destin du siecle.
Mark Aldanov:
The Tenth Symphony.
Balmont:
Northern Lights
Ivanov:
Rozy.
Poplavsky:
Flags.
Woolf:
The Waves.
1932
Death of her father from a pulmonary embolism. Though a rich man, he leaves Irene a paltry inheritance. She begins to publish short stories.
Celine:
Voyage au bout de la nuit.
Mauriac:
Le Noeud de viperes.
Romains:
Les Hommes de bonne volonte
(27 vols, to 1946). Chardonne:
L’Amour du prochain.
Nabokov:
Glory.
Roth:
The Radetzky March.
Huxley:
Brave New World.
1933
L’Affaire Courilof (The
Courilof Affair), a “terrorist” novel, published by Grasset. Financial troubles lead to an association with
Gringoire,
a high-circulation, right-wing weekly founded by Horace de Carbuccia in 1928, which from now on publishes the majority of her short stories.
Malraux:
La Condition humaine.
Duhamel:
Chronique des Pasquiers
(10 vols, to 1941). Nabokov:
Laughter in the Dark.
Stein:
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
Buck:
The Mother.
1934
Irene changes publisher, moving from Grasset to Albin Michel for the publication of
Le Pion sur l’echiquier
(The Pawn on the Chessboard)
.
Meets the author Paul Morand, who edits her compilation of four stories,
Films parles
(Spoken Films) for Gallimard. Becomes theater critic for the daily newspaper
Aujourd’hui.
Cocteau:
La Machine infernale.
Yourcenar:
Denier du reve.
Brasillach:
L’Enfant de la nuit.
Berberova:
The Accompanist.
Fitzgerald:
Tender is the Night.
Cain:
The Postman Always Rings Twice
(Nemirovsky writes preface to the French edition.)
1935
Le Vin de solitude
(The Wine of Solitude), Albin Michel, a veiled autobiography. First appeal for naturalization as a French citizen. Moves to a new flat on avenue Constant-Coquelin (June). Becomes literary critic for the weekly
La Revue Hebdomadaire.
Giraudoux:
La Guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu.
Troyat:
Faux jour.
Tristan Bernard:
Robin des Bois.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS
    Germany suspends payment of war reparations (suspended indefinitely by her creditors at Lausanne in 1932, and repudiated by Hitler in 1933). Depression hits France. Briand runs for president and is defeated. Geneva disarmament conference (to 1934). Roosevelt becomes US president. Trial of Mensheviks. Rene Clair:
Le Million.
    Right-wing parties lose control to Radicals; Herriot becomes prime minister; Franco-Soviet non-aggression pact. President Doumer murdered by a Russian emigre. First TV images broadcast in