"Les chiens et les loups di Irène Némirovsky : per una risposta sull'esilio"

In Némirovsky’s writings the issue of exile is endowed with a personal connotation embodied in the absence of the “truths” shared by exiled writers. The retrospective glance and the sense of mourning for a happy past are absent, and similarly the forceful passage to an Other language does not take place. Nevertheless, her forced departure allows the writer the possibility to evaluate the issue of evil in history. In Les Chiens et les loups the children who witness the events find in the idea of divine retribution a possible answer to the extreme painfulness characterizing human fate.