The Mirador in The Millions
A very thoughtful article about the life and fate of Irène Némirovsky and The Mirador, the fictional memoir of Némirovsky by her daughter Élisabeth Gille, by Emily St. John Mandel in ‘The Millions’.
From Emily’s Review:
Consider the phrase “one imagines”; how many times have we read a memoir in which someone imagines childhood events which they themselves could not possibly have witnessed? Everyone runs up against some version of this when recollecting their own past: the point in which memory gives way to sense-images, sense-images to imaginings.
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