Bibliocollège - Le bal, Irène Némirovsky

Antoinette has just turned fourteen; she dreams of taking part in the ball organized by her parents, the Kampf, to show off their recently acquired fortune. But her mother, more eager to finally enjoy this opulence so long awaited than to bring her daughter into the world, refuses to invite Antoinette to the ball. Antoinette's avengence, as terrible as unexpected, will fall like a cleaver, revealing the real face of each person. A fulgurant and initiatory novel on childhood and her torments, Le Bal is one of the first books by Irene Némirosky, who disappeared prematurely in deportation in 1942. Irene Némirovsky won the Renaudot Prize 2004 for her posthumous French Suite.The annotated full text, an annotated presentation of Irene Némirovsky and her time, an overview of the genre of novel and news, questionnaires for reading and analysing the work, an exploited iconographic document, a group of texts: "L'enfant : un charactere de roman".