On Irene Nemirovsky Again

Once more - a great line:

In the end, the biography and the stories leave one feeling both sad and intensely conscious of the disparity between Irène Némirovksy’s literary offenses and the fate that awaited her at Auschwitz. What we’re left with are the paradoxes...A woman obsessed with defining her own identity learned how little her opinion mattered to authorities with their own criteria for determining who she was.