All the other things -- wildness and bliss and desperation, rage, the urgency of sex -- lay behind her.... What she aimed for now was loyalty and affection".
About her own work she always said the same things: that what she aimed for was 'getting it right, getting it as it really was'; and that one must cut and cut and cut again.
"Still, I could have done a better job of communicating," she wrote, noting that in particular she should have been clearer to "good" teachers and parents about what she aimed to do and why unpopular decisions were being made.
So to be able to get them to do things in a way that is remotely like what she aiming for, she'll have to connect, inspire and engage them.
And there is something that goes beyond what she was aiming for.
Némirovsky knew what she was aiming for, how high a standard she had set for herself, and how hard it would be to achieve.
She now lives a solitary existence focused on trying to understand God and explain him.That was pretty much what she was aiming for 40 years ago, when she became a nun in a teaching order.
