Journal

Synopsis

In july 1942 irène némirovsky, author of the now-bestselling suite française, wrote in her notebook on her last day of freedom before she was deported by the nazis, `the pine woods all around me. I am sitting on my blue cardigan in the middle of an ocean of leaves, wet and rotting from last night's storm, as if i were on a raft, my legs tucked under me! In my bag i have put volume ii of anna karenina, the journal of km and an orange. ' katherine mansfield's journal is one of the great classics of twentieth century literature but has not been in print for many years.