The Pawn on the Chessboard

Irène NémirovskyLe Pion sur l'échiquierSet in France during the economic crisis of the nineteen-thirties, Le Pion sur l'échiquier is an unflinching portrait of a man for whom life has lost all meaning. Son of a dying steel magnate whose investments crashed, Christophe Bohun works in an International News Agency and lives together with his dying father, wife, mistress and son, in dilapidated grandeur. At a time of external hardship, he appears to have everything and value nothing. Where his father was driven by a ruthless passion for high finance and his teenage son is eaten up with suppressed anger, Némirovsky presents us with an anti-hero whose bleak interior life is an object lesson in alienation and emotional numbness.

• | Author: Irène Némirovsky
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 186 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1481077090
• | ISBN-13: 9781481077095