Annie Ernaux

Eine Frau lässt die die vergangenen Jahre seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges bis heute Revue passieren. Die unpersönliche angelegte Autobiographie einer Frau wird zu einer außergewöhnlichen Erzählform zwischen Geschichte und Erinnerung.

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.

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 i

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 failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story

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,

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Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit

Ca ne vaut plus le coup d'avoir mes regles. Ma tante a dit : t'as perdu ta langue, Anne ? t'tais plus causante avant. C'est plutt la leur de langue que j'ai perdue. Tout est dsordre en moi, a ne colle pas avec ce qu'ils disent."Histoire d'u

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 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, t

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 | Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union ‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to w

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person’s lived environment

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 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 attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple P

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 t