Essayiste, romancier, journaliste, philosophe, historien, mémorialiste... Emmanuel Berl (1892-1976) fut tout cela à la fois. Rien ne sera resté étranger à ce personnage singulier, cavalier seul en marge des grandes équipées de son temps.Sa vie commence sous le regard de Bergson et de Proust, ses par...

Irène Némirovsky's own life was as dramatic as any fiction. Few writers enjoy posthumous success as astonishing as hers after the international triumph of Suite Française. She was born in 1903 in Kiev to a well-off Jewish family. They fled the Russian revolution, eventually settling in France where...