The Courilof Affair
by Irene Nemirovsky (Deceased)
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London: Random House, 2008. Used. In 1903, Leon M - a devout terrorist - is given the responsibility of 'liquidating' Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the notoriously brutal and cold-blooded Russian Minister of Education, by the Revolutionary Committee. The assassination, he is told, must take place in public and be in most grandiose manner possible in order to strike the imagination of the people. Posing as his newly appointed personal physician, Leon M takes up residence with Courliof in his summer house in the Iles and awaits instructions.But over the course of his stay he is made privy to the inner world of Courliof - his failing health, his troubled domestic situation and, most importantly, the tyrannical grip that the Czar himself holds over all his Ministers, forcing them to obey him or suffer the most deadly punishments.Set during a period of radical upheaval in European history, "The Courliof Affair" is an unsparing observation of human motives and the abuses of power, an elegy to lost world and an unflinchingly topical cautionary tale.
Synopsis
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder , Le Bal and other works published in her lifetime, as well as the posthumous Suite Française . She died in Auschwitz in 1942. The first French publication of Fire in the Blood , by the publishers who discovered and published Suite Française , is in March 2007.
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- The Courilof Affair
- Author
- Irene Nemirovsky (Deceased)
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- Paperback
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- Random House
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2008
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