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Dit boek is een collectieve autobiografie van onze tijd. Het vertelt het verhaal over de periode 1941-2006 door de lens van het geheugen, van tegenwoordige en herinnerde indrukken, culturele gewoonten, taal, foto’s, boeken, liedjes, radio, televisie, reclame en krantenkoppen. Annie Ernaux slaagt erin een vorm te vinden die zowel subjectief als onpersoonlijk, particulier als collectief is, een nieuw genre in feite, dat beoogt het verleden te vangen. Als vermenging van autobiografische fictie en sociologie is De jaren ‘een Op zoek naar de verloren tijd van ons tijdperk van mediadominantie en consumentisme’ (The New York Times), een monumentale bijdrage aan de twintigste-eeuwse Franse geschiedenis zoals weerspiegeld in het leven van één vrouw.

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides a powerful reflection on experience and the power of violent memory to endure through time, to determine the course of a life.

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux''s teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is 30 years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. While each of Ernaux''s books contain an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, one of Ernaux''s early works, concentrates the spotlight piercingly on Annie herself. Mixing affection, rage and bitterness, A Frozen Woman shows us Ernaux''s developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the shortened form emerged that has since become her trademark.

Η Annie Ernaux, μία από τις σημαντικότερες σύγχρονες συγγραφείς της Γαλλίας, σ’ αυτό το εμβληματικό αυτοβιογραφικό αφήγημα γράφει με βάση την προσωπική της εμπειρία για όλα όσα συνδέουν αλλά και απομακρύνουν τους πατεράδες από τις κόρες αναλύοντας τι σημαίνει να χάνεις έναν γονιό, τα παιχνίδια που παίζει η μνήμη, τη σταδιακή αποξένωση ανάμεσα σε άτομα διαφορετικών γενιών και κοινωνικών τάξεων. Ένα βιβλίο πάνω στο ορυκτό βίωμα. Πώς οι σπουδές αλλάζουν τον άνθρωπο. Πώς ανοίγει κάτω απ’ τα πόδια σου γκρεμός, που σε ξεκόβει από την παλιά ζωή. Πώς ο γονιός πεθαίνει, γίνεται ανάμνηση. Δεν λες τα λόγια που πρέπει την ώρα που πρέπει, γιατί δεν ξέρεις πώς να τα πεις. Και εκ των υστέρων, τα γράφεις. Ο πόνος αγκαλιά με τη χαρά. Η βαθιά περηφάνια του πατέρα. Η κόρη του ανήκει πια «στον κόσμο που τον είχε καταφρονήσει». Το βιβλίο αυτό μιλάει για τους ανθρώπους που μας γέννησαν. Για τη μέγγενη του περιβάλλοντος, το τι σημαίνει να είσαι πατέρας, αλλά και να είσαι η κόρη αυτού του πατέρα. από το προλογικό σημείωμα της Σοφίας Νικολαΐδου ΕΓΡΑΨΑΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΒΙΒΛΙΟ Όμορφη γραφή γεμάτη χάρη… Η Ερνό αξίζει και με το παραπάνω τη διεθνή της φήμη που ξεπερνάει όλο και περισσότερα σύνορα. New York Times Ένα λαμπρό λογοτεχνικό επίτευγμα, που πάλλεται από συγκρατημένο συναίσθημα. Le Monde Αριστούργημα… Σε κατακλύζει… Paris-Match

Åren är en berättelse om tiden mellan 1941 till 2006, från författaren Annie Ernaux uppväxt i en arbetarklassfamilj i Normandie, via katolsk privatskola, till tiden som lärare i litteratur i Paris, förortslivet, de två sönerna och slutligen skilsmässan. Men det är inte en genomsnittlig självbiografi, utan ett slags egensinnigt kollektivt minne. Ernaux uppfinner en ny stil som är subjektiv och opersonlig, privat och allmän, och en ny genre - den kollektiva självbiografin - för att på så sätt fånga tidens gång. Ernaux behandlar teman som den katolska prydhetens kollaps, sekulariseringens framfart, p-pillret, abortfriheten och kvinnans frigörelse. Ett annat viktigt tema är hur vi lämnat skammen bakom oss och gått in i ett allt extremare konsumtionssamhälle. Vi kan läsa Annie Ernaux oslagbart träffsäkra essä över samtiden, efterkrigstidens Europa, närmast som ett lackmuspapper över var vi befinner oss idag: i en tid av klasskillnader, populism, sönderfallande landsbygd och alienering. Åren har jämförts med Marcel Prousts stora minnesarbete På spaning efter den tid som flytt , men ur ett folkligt, kvinnligt och samtida perspektiv.

Textes extraits d''Écrire la vie (coll. Quarto)

Una escena familiar, y sus consecuencias perturbadoras, diseccionadas por la autora que ha hecho de su vida materia literaria. En 1952, cuando Annie Ernaux tenía doce años, su padre quiso matar a su madre un domingo de junio, a primera hora de la tarde. Años después, esa escena se le presenta a la autora tan diáfanamente cruel como el día en que la vivió. Como en tantas otras familias, sus padres, que se odian entre sí, adoran en cambio a la niña, por lo que, mientras pasan los días y el olvido invade el hogar, el recuerdo de aquel domingo parece convertirse en un mal sueño. Sin embargo esa escena cambió para siempre a la autora: aquella niña y su familia «habían dejado de ser gente decente», y todo había pasado a ser vergonzoso. Annie Ernaux recorre desde los códigos de conducta y las normas sociales que imperaban en su entorno, hasta las noticias del momento, las expresiones más usadas o el temor que infundían las grandes ciudades, para calibrar con exactitud hasta qué punto lo ocurrido la hicieron sentirse indigna.

Una mujer ante una sociedad en la que el aborto es un tabú (y un delito). En octubre de 1963, cuando Annie Ernaux se halla en Ruán estudiando filología, descubre que está embarazada. Desde el primer momento no le cabe la menor duda de que no quiere tener esa criatura no deseada. En una sociedad en la que se penaliza el aborto con prisión y multa, se encuentra sola; hasta su pareja se desentiende del asunto. Además del desamparo y la discriminación por parte de una sociedad que le vuelve la espalda, queda la lucha frente al profundo horror y dolor de un aborto clandestino. «Busco siempre que mi escritura sea incisiva, que vaya al corazón de las cosas.» Annie Ernaux (declaraciones al diario Clarín)

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter’s attachment to her mother, and of both women’s strength and resiliency. I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie’s attempts first 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. I Remain in Darkness is a new high water mark for Ernaux, surging with raw emotional power and her sublime ability to use language to apprehend her own life’s particular music. A Washington Post Top Memoir of 1999

Nobelpreis für Literatur 2022 Ihr Vater stirbt, und Annie Ernaux nimmt das zum Anlass, sein Leben zu erzählen: Um die Jahrhundertwende geboren, musste er früh von der Schule abgehen, war zunächst Bauer, dann, bis zum Todesjahr 1967, Besitzer eines kleinen Lebensmittelladens in der Normandie, die körperliche Arbeit ließ ihn hart werden gegen seine Familie. Das Leben des Vaters ist auch die Geschichte vom gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg der Eltern und der gleichzeitigen Angst, wieder in die Unterschicht abzurutschen, von der Gefahr, nicht zu bestehen. Dass seine Tochter eine höhere Schule besucht, macht ihn stolz, trotzdem entfernen sich beide voneinander. Diese Biographie des Vaters ist auch die Geschichte eines Verrats der Tochter: An ihren Eltern, einfachen Menschen, und dem Milieu, in dem sie aufgewachsen ist – gespalten zwischen Zuneigung und Scham, zwischen Zugehörigkeit und Entfremdung.

"En 2008, Michelle Porte, que je connaissais comme la réalisatrice de très beaux documentaires sur Virginia Woolf et Marguerite Duras, m’a exprimé son désir de me filmer dans les lieux de ma jeunesse, Yvetot, Rouen, et dans celui d’aujourd’hui, Cergy. J''évoquerais ma vie, l’écriture, le lien entre les deux. J’ai aimé et accepté immédiatement son projet, convaincue que le lieu – géographique, social – où l’on naît, et celui où l’on vit, offrent sur les textes écrits, non pas une explication, mais l’arrière-fond de la réalité où, plus ou moins, ils sont ancrés."

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist''s defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008 The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into the future—photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from 6 decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for the ever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author''s continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective. On its 2008 publication in France, The Years came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, The Years was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir "written" by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. Like the generation before hers, the narrator eschews the "I" for the "we" (or "they", or "one") as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents'' generation ceased to exist. She writes of her parents'' generation (and could be writing of her own book): "From a common fund of hunger and fear, everything was told in the "we" and impersonal pronouns." Co-winner of the 2018 French-American Foundation Translation Prize in Nonfiction Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of work Winner of the 2016 Strega European Prize

"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" -- "INTRODUCTION" -- "NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION AND APPENDIX" -- "SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY" -- "LA PLACE

Pendant un an, Annie Ernaux a tenu le journal de ses visites à l’hypermarché Auchan du centre commercial des Trois-Fontaines situé en région parisienne. « Voir pour écrire, c’est voir autrement », écrit-elle. On redécouvre en effet à ses côtés le monde de la grande surface. Loin de se résumer à la corvée des courses, celle-ci prend dans ce livre un autre visage : elle devient un grand rendez-vous humain, un véritable spectacle. Avec ce relevé libre de sensations et d’observations, l’hypermarché, espace familier où tout le monde ou presque se côtoie, atteint la dignité de sujet littéraire. Annie Ernaux est écrivain. Elle est notamment l’auteur de La Place (1984), La Honte (1997), Les Années (2008) aux Éditions Gallimard.

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux''s father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, 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 reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France. Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires. A Man''s Place is the companion book to her critically acclaimed memoir about her mother, A Woman''s Story.

Car il a bien fallu que je me débrouille avec cette mystérieuse incohérence : toi la bonne fille, la petite sainte, tu n''as pas été sauvée, moi le démon j''étais vivante. Plus que vivante, miraculée. Il fallait donc que tu meures à six ans pour que je vienne au monde et que je sois sauvée.

“Annie Ernaux’s work,” wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, “represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory.” In the New York Times Book Review, Kathryn Harrison concurred: “Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse.” In this “journal” 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 the larger world. From the war crimes tribunal in Bosnia to social issues such as poverty and AIDS; from the state of Iraq to the world’s contrasting reactions to Princess Diana’s death and the starkly brutal political murders that occurred at the same time; from a tear-gas attack on the subway to minute interactions with a clerk in a store: Ernaux’s thought-provoking observations map the world’s fleeting and lasting impressions on the shape of inner life.

Roman d''autofiction.

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book "A deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality" (Kirkus Reviews) Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris." She explores the bond between mother and daughter, tenuous and unshakable at once, the alienating worlds that separate them, and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love. In this quietly powerful tribute, Ernaux attempts to do her mother the greatest justice she can: to portray her as the individual she was. She writes, "I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book 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, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her 2 year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the pieces of its aftermath, she is able to find it.

Translated from the French by Tanya Leslie ''Absolutely extraordinary'' - Liberation In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and single, realises 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 her child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. Abortion was illegal at the time and she attempted, in vain, to self-administer with a knitting needle and nearly died. An exceptionally moving account of a tragic experience.

Ce journal va conduire l''héroïne à la mort de sa mère, atteinte de la maladie d''Alzheimer.

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE In this novel, which takes the form of journal entries made over the course of seven years, Annie Ernaux concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person''s lived environment. She captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of a great city: tortured, chaotic, lyrical, and powerfully alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux''s books--the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her.

Ce petit livre de "choses vues", cette mosaïque de courtes notations recueillies au hasard, au jour le jour aboutit à ce que Françoise Giroud décrit comme des "ethnotextes", donc très localisés dans la banlieue parisienne.

"Anne a quinze ans. Elle traîne son ennui au seuil de grandes vacances sans horizon dans le pavillon de ses parents. Par l''intermédiaire de sa meilleure amie, elle rencontre Mathieu, étudiant, moniteur durant l''été dans une colonie de vacances. Avec lui elle fait l''amour pour la première fois. Il la rejette brutalement lorsqu''il apprend qu''elle est allée avec Yan. À la rentrée, au lycée, elle se renferme, renvoyée à la solitude. Roman âpre, juste, d''une adolescente en quête de sens et de liberté, Ce qu''ils disent ou rien préfigure, quarante ans plus tôt, Mémoire de fille."--Page 4 of cover.