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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.
In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a
student thirty years her junior – an experience that transforms
her, briefly, back into the ‘scandalous girl’ of her youth.
When she is with him, she replays scenes she has already lived
through, feeling both ageless and closer to death. Laid like a
palimpsest on the present, the past’s immediacy pushes her to
take a decisive step in her writing – producing, in turn, the
need to expunge her lover. At once stark and tender, The Young Man
is a taut encapsulation of Ernaux’s relationship to time, memory
and writing.
Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and
a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an
attache to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion,
was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate and
unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with
two grown sons, living in the suburbs of Paris and nearing fifty.
Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to
survive only in expectation of these encounters. She cannot write,
she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in
the world, she awaits his next call; she lives merely to feel
desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the moment
of desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death.
Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her
writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated
brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer, Getting Lost
is a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and
despair.
A meditation on the big-box superstore, from 2022 Nobel laureate
Annie Ernaux For half a century, French writer Annie Ernaux has
restlessly explored stories and subjects often considered unworthy
of artistic reflection. In this exquisite meditation, Ernaux turns
her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a
ubiquitous feature of modern life that has received scant attention
in literature. Recording her visits to a single superstore in Paris
for over a year, Ernaux captures the world that exists within its
massive walls. Culture, class, and capitalism converge,
reinscribing the individual's role and rank within society while
absorbing individuality into the machine of mass consumerism.
Through Ernaux's eyes, the superstore emerges as a "great human
meeting place, a spectacle," a space where we come into direct
contact with difference. She notes the unexpectedly intimate
encounters between customers; how our collective desires are
dictated by the daily, seasonal, and annual rhythms of the
marketplace; and the ways that the built environment reveals the
contours of gender and race in contemporary society. With her
relentless powers of observation, Annie Ernaux takes the measure of
a place we thought we knew, calling us to question the experiences
we overlook and to gaze more deeply into ordinary life.
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.
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Getting Lost (Paperback)
Annie Ernaux; Translated by Alison L. Strayer
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R493
R369
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Influential French novelist, screenwriter, pioneer in literary
genre and Oscar nominee Vladimir Pozner came to the United States
in the 1930s. He found the nation and its people in a state of
profound material and spiritual crisis, and took it upon himself to
chronicle the life of the worker, the striker, the politician, the
starlet, the gangster, the everyman; to document the bitter,
violent racism tearing our society asunder, the overwhelming
despair permeating everyday life, and the unyielding human struggle
against all that. Pozner writes about America and Americans with
the searing criticism and deep compassion of an outsider who loves
the country and its people far too much to render anything less
than a brutally honest portrayal. Recalling Agee's "Let Us Now
Praise Famous Men," Pozner shatters the rules of reportage to
create a complete enduring and profound portrait.
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A Girl's Story (Paperback)
Annie Ernaux; Translated by Alison L. Strayer
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R459
R376
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