Dec. 26, 2009 at 2:49pm
Reblogged from iwannotowidigdo
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These two sections [of Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Francaise], plus some of the author’s notes, are all we have — this in itself is a tragedy and waste of war. Had this novel been finished we would be hailing it as one of the supreme works of literature. As it stands, it is like a great cathedral gutted by a bomb. The ruined shell still soars to heaven, a reminder of the human spirit triumphing despite human destructiveness.
