The Story of Suite Française . . .

And a soul-searching question for every writer

Cynthia Giles
Schopenhauer & Friends
6 min readDec 5, 2019

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If you had no hope, would you keep writing?

This is the story of one woman’s choice.

The Suitcase

In 1941, Irène Némirovsky began work on an epic five-part novel, in which she planned to trace the unfolding war in Europe from a French perspective…

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Cynthia Giles
Schopenhauer & Friends

Writer at large, Ph.D. in interdisciplinary humanities. Persistently curious! Launching Complexity Press, Spring 2023.