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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.

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.

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La peur d''être déplacé, d''avoir honte. Un jour, il est monté par erreur en première avec un billet de seconde. Le contrôleur lui a fait payer le supplément. Autre souvenir de honte: chez le notaire

« Relisant ces pages, je m''aperçois que j''ai déjà oublié beaucoup de scènes et de faits. Il me semble même que ce n''est pas moi qui les ai transcrits. Ce sont comme des traces de temps et d''histo

The Use of Photography recounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive chemo for breast cancer during the prior three months, and had lost all her hair from the treatments. At the end of January she had surgery, followed by radiation therapy. The affair took place in different locations and Ernaux describes how, shortly after it began, she found herself entranced each morning by the sight of clothes strewn about, chairs out of place and the remains of their last meal of the evening still on the table and how painful it felt to put things back in order afterwards. She went and got her camera, and began to take photographs of the scenes of disarray. When she told Marc Marie what she had done, he said he had felt the same desire. Translated by Alison L. Strayer into English for the first time, The Use of Photography is an extraordinary meditation on eroticism, photography and writing, a major work by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

« J''avais quitté W. Quelques mois après, il m''a annoncé qu''il allait vivre avec une femme, dont il a refusé de me dire le nom. À partir de ce moment, je suis tombée dans la jalousie. L''image et l

« Depuis des années, je tourne autour de cet événement de ma vie. Lire dans un roman le récit d''un avortement me plonge dans un saisissement sans images ni pensées, comme si les mots se changeaient

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?

I will write to avenge my people. It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diary, giving a name to her purpose in life as a writer. She returns to them in her stirring defence of literature and of political writing in her Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2022. To write of her own life, she asserts, is to shatter the loneliness of experiences endured and repressed; to mine individual experience is to find collective emancipation. Ernauxs speech is a bold assertion of the capacity of writing to give people a sense of their own worth, and of one writers commitment to bearing witness to life, its joys and its injustices.