The Pawn on the Chessboard

Download or read book The Pawn on the Chessboard written by Irne Nmirovsky and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ir�ne N�mirovskyLe Pion sur l'�chiquierSet in France during the economic crisis of the nineteen-thirties, Le Pion sur l'�chiquier is an unflinching portrait of a man for whom life has lost all meaning. Son of a dying steel magnate whose investments crashed, Christophe Bohun works in an International News Agency and lives together with his dying father, wife, mistress and son, in dilapidated grandeur. At a time of external hardship, he appears to have everything and value nothing. Where his father was driven by a ruthless passion for high finance and his teenage son is eaten up with suppressed anger, N�mirovsky presents us with an anti-hero whose bleak interior life is an object lesson in alienation and emotional numbness.