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There’s a scene in “The Fires of Autumn,” Irene Nemirovsky’s novel set in 1920s France, by which a young war widow called Therese thinks she actually is being courted for wedding by her childhood friend Bernard — simply to find that he wishes absolutely nothing a lot more than a fling.

He, in change, is baffled by her unwillingness to carry on an affair that is casual. Because of the shortage of teenagers in post-World War I European countries — 10 million soldiers passed away and 20 million had been wounded, many grievously — Bernard wonders why any bachelor would like to subside. “You wish to have some enjoyable?” he asks Therese rhetorically, “Fine.Read More