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Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation in A Man's Place reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France. Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires.

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My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June in the early afternoon Thus begins Shame the probing story of the twelve year old girl who will become Annie Ernaux and the traumatic memory

«Dentro da casa unha suma de pequenos ruídos: o muíño de café, as cazolas. Fóra, unha discreta profesora, esposa dun executivo vestida de Cacharel ou de Rodier. Unha muller xeada.» Criada nun ambient

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Una giovane coppia si sposa, condivide una casa, fa due figli. Anche se animata da ideali egualitari e progressisti, la famiglia presto si sbilancia e tutto il peso delle incombenze di ogni giorno ricade esclusivamente sulla moglie. Uningiustizia quotidiana, normale, che vivono moltissime donne. Con sguardo implacabile "La donna gelata" traccia un percorso di liberazione capace di trasformare linconfessabile orrore per la propria vita in coraggiosa e spietata presa di coscienza. Alternando limpeto di una requisitoria alla precisione di unindagine, Ernaux ci consegna unanalisi dellistituzione matrimoniale che non ha uguali nella letteratura contemporanea.

A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent. Haunting and devastatingly poignant, I Remain in Darkness showcases Ernaux's unique talent for evoking life's darkest and most bewildering episodes.

Raccontare la vita: e questo il nome della collana per la quale nel 2012 leditore francese Seuil chiede un libro ad Annie Ernaux. Senza esitazioni, lautrice sceglie di portare alla luce uno spazio ignorato dalla letteratura, eppure formidabile specchio della realta sociale: lipermercato. Ne nasce dunque un diario, in cui Ernaux registra per un anno le proprie regolari visite al suo Auchan annotando le contraddizioni e le ritualita ma anche le insospettate tenerezze di quel tempio del consumo. Da questa libera rassegna di osservazioni condotta tra una corsia e laltra - con in mano la lista della spesa -, a contatto con le scintillanti montagne di merci della grande distribuzione, prende vita Guarda le luci, amore mio, una riflessione narrativa capace di mostrarci da unangolazione inedita uno dei teatri segreti del nostro vivere collettivo.

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, she attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married man where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, Ernaux seeks the truth behind an existence lived, for a time, entirely for someone else.

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising and news headlines. Annie Ernaux invents a form that is subjective and impersonal, private and communal, and a new genre - the collective autobiography - in order to capture the passing of time. At the confluence of autofiction and sociology, The Years is 'a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism' (New York Times), a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman.

Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation in A Man's Place reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France. Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires.

A 10 ans, Annie découvre l'existence d'une soeur aînée, décédée à l'âge de 6 ans d'une maladie. Ses parents gardent le secret et jamais elle ne leur posera de questions. Le récit se construit autour

Ume koxkorra zenetik hasi eta haurtzaro, nerabezaro eta gaztaroan barrena, bere bizitzaren azterketa xehea egiten du narratzaileak, unean uneko amets, fantasia eta irrikak kontatuz, eguneroko lan, solas eta ohiturekin batera. Horrela, bere buruaren analisi zorrotza ez ezik, jendarte oso baten erretratu fidela eskaintzen digu, XX. mende erdialdeko Frantziarena, eta orobat ikasketei esker gurasoen gizarte-maila apala gainditu nahi izan duten neska gazteena. Emakume ikasia eta kontzientziaduna da protagonista, eta berdintasunez banatu nahi dituzte etxeko lanak bikotean, baina jasotako hezkuntzak, arau ezarriek eta inertzia sozialek andrazkoaren gain utziko dituzte etxeari, haurrei eta hazkuntzari dagozkien zeregin guztiak. Bere esperientzia kontatuz egileak, idazkera gordin eta aldi berean eder batekin, agerian jartzen du Mendebaldeko emakumezkoak harrapatuta dauzkan amarrua, Oemakume izoztu" bihurtu dituen patua.

«A partir del mes de septiembre del año pasado, no hice otra cosa que esperar a un hombre : que me llamara y que viniera a verme» ; así empieza la historia sobre la pasión de una mujer culta, intelig

Como cualquier historiador, Ernaux se topa con la opacidad de lo que ya no es, con la fragilidad de la memoria. Tiene que ir apartando velos que se multiplican sin cesar en un corredor sin fin para llegar a revivir el recuerdo.Yvetot, un domingo de verano de 1950. En una calleja, una conversacion entre dos mujeres, la madre de la escritora y una clienta. Cerca de ellas, revoloteando, una niña de diez años presta oido disimuladamente. Es Annie Ernaux. Memorialista de su propia infancia, Ernaux recrea en La otra hija unos hechos que introdujeron por azar en su vida un misterio perpetuo, persistente hasta el punto de llevarla a visitar en 2009 la casa donde nacio (la primera vez desde 1945) incluso antes de emprender la redaccion del libro, y a especular sesenta años despues sobre el sentido de aquella revelacion. Pero ¿quien es la otra hija? ¿Es la hermana que no conocio y que murio tragicamente de difteria a la edad de seis años o es ella misma, una niña poco amable segun su madre?