Considered by many to be the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate'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,...
'I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have...
In A Girlâs Story , Annie Ernaux revisits the season 50 years earlier when she found herself overpowered by anotherâs will and desire. In the summer of 1958, 18-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a manâ...
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...
" Happening recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed â and world ominously narrowed â in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . It feels urgently of the moment."
The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and presentâeven projections into the futureâphotos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertis...
The full French text is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.