Identity Crisis and Transcendence in Suite Francaise
In her posthumous work,Suite Francaise,the French-Jewish author Irène Némirovsky recreates the mass exodus from Paris during the German occupation and the lives of people in the German-occupied territories,and depicts the existential crisis facing the French people of all social strata.The fiction represents the French people's anxiety over self-identity and the loss of their collective i-dentity,and meanwhile it also conveys the author's urgent desire to break free from his own wartime identity predicament and to active-ly pursue identity transcendence.By portraying the macro picture of the French society and the subtlety of the French people's inner world during the Second World War,Némirovsky lays bare the insignificance,helplessness and spiritual pursuit of humanity in the war environment,reflecting a distinctive literary value and the unique spiritual demeanor of the French people during World War Ⅱ period.