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esperanza / hope

Le vio sonreír al mirar a aquel conglomerado de casas bajas, que dormitaban en el crepúsculo. Sabía que él las imaginaba llenas de parlanchinas y emotivas ancianas, prudentes y puntillosas damas de clase media; y a lo lejos, en los campos, los agricultores que se asemejaban mas a los animales. Era, en parte verdad. Sin embargo, había algo sombrío, misterioso, imposible de explicar, y en medio de todo aquello, Lucile pensó de pronto, recordando algo que había leído en la escuela: “incluso el tirano más orgulloso jamás gobernará”.

 

(Suite Française).

Irene Nemirovsky, tras la Revolución Rusa en 1918 escapó a Francia donde se convirtió en una reputada novelista. En 1940 se trasladó a Issy-l`Equêve (en territorio ocupado por Alemania). Murió en Auschwitz en 1942.

 

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She saw him smiling, looking around at all the low, squat, secret houses slumbering in the dusk. She could see he was imagining them full of chatty an emotional old women, prudent and nit-picking middle class ladies; and further away, in the countryside, farmers who were more like animals. It was almost, partly true. Yet there remained something shadowy, mysterious, impossible to articulate, and over which, Lucile suddenly thought, remembering something she´d read at school: “even the proudest tyrant will never rule¨

 

(Suite Française).

Irene Nemirovsky, fled from Russia in 1918 after the Revolution. In France she became a bestselling novelist. In 1940 she moved to Issy-l`Equêve (in German occupied territory). Died in Auschwitz in 1942.

 

 

texture # 37 by lenabem - anna

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