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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.

4A EDICIÓ «M'ENCISA AQUESTA MANERA TAN SEVA DE DESPULLAR-SE PER DESPULLAR-NOS.» - EVA PIQUER, _ARA_ En aquesta narració directa i vibrant, Annie Ernaux fa la crònica d'un enamorament apassionat a toc

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 two-year relationship with a married man where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, Ernaux seeks the truth behind an existence lived, for a time, entirely for someone else.

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.

« 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

« 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

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

« 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.

On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernauxs mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimers disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mothers condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to recover the different facets of a woman whose openness to the world and appetite for reading created the conditions for the authors own social ascent. Mirroring A Mans Place, in which she narrates her fathers slow rise to material comfort, A Womans Story explores the ambiguous and unshakeable bond between mother and daughter, its fluctuation over the course of their lives, the alienating worlds that separate them and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love. In this quietly powerful tribute to the last thread connecting her to the world out of which she was born, Ernaux attempts to do her mother the greatest justice she can: to portray her as the individual she was.

One Sunday in Yvetot August 1950 Annie is playing outside in the sun Her mother steps out of the grocery to chat with a customer a few metres from her The two women s conversation is perfectly audible its scraps become etched forever in Annie s memory Before she was born her parents had another daughter She died at the age of six from diphtheria Annie will never hear another word from her parents about this unknown sister nor will she ask them a single question about her their family unit has formed in the image of its vanished predecessor In The Other Girl brilliantly translated for the first time into English by Alison L Strayer Annie Ernaux explores the meaning of this family secret and the insurmountable distance that separates the two sisters