Author of the Month: Annie Ernaux
We are delighted to welcome, in the month of her 80th birthday, French novelist, memoirist and essayist Annie Ernaux as our Author of the Month for September.
Following experiments in autobiographical fiction, she turned early in her career to memoir with a mesmerising series of reflections and meditations on memory, loss, grief and love. Of her most famous book the novelist John Banville writes ‘The Years is a revolution, not only in the art of autobiography but in art itself. Annie Ernaux’s book blends memories, dreams, facts and meditations into a unique evocation of the times in which we lived, and live.’
Annie Ernaux, translated by Tanya Leslie
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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 ...
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In A GIRL’S STORY, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, her first away from home, and recounts the first night she spent with a man.
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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, ...
Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer
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In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social ...
Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer
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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 ...
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On her mother’s death, Annie Ernaux travels back in time to reunite Mother and Daughter – writing both movingly and quixotically ‘to capture the real woman, the one who ...
Annie Ernaux, translated by Jonathan Kaplansky
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Annie Ernaux turns her penetrating focus on those points in life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where “things seen” reflect a private life meeting ...
Annie Ernaux, translated by Carol Sanders
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Cleaned Out tells the story of Denise Lesur, a 20-year-old woman suffering the after-effects of a back-alley abortion. Alone in her college dorm room, Denise attempts to ...
