New Releases by Annie Ernaux

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

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "Happening recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed — and world ominously narrowed — in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment." --The New York Times 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, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience. Now an award-winning film by Audrey Diwan Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival

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.

Nobelpreis für Literatur 2022 Mit schonungsloser Genauigkeit erzählt Annie Ernaux von ihrer ersten sexuellen Begegnung – von Macht, Ohnmacht und Unterwerfung. Von einer Wunde, die niemals ausgeheilt ist. Und vom teuer bezahlten Erkennen des eigenen Werts. Sommer 1958: Annie Duchesne wird 18 Jahre alt. Sie arbeitet als Betreuerin in einer Ferienkolonie. Sie findet in eine Clique, zusammen feiern sie Feten, genießen ihre Jugend. Und Annie ist in H. verliebt, mit ihm hat sie ihr erstes Mal. Eine Nacht, die einen anhaltenden Schock bedeutet. Auch weil H. sie fortan ignoriert, weiß sie nicht, wohin mit sich und lässt sich auf andere ein. Schnell ist sie verfemt. Was folgt, sind Ausgrenzung, der Hohn der anderen, ihre eigene Scham. Und Schweigen. Denn über 55 Jahre braucht Annie Ernaux, um sich dieser »Erinnerung der Scham« stellen zu können. »Annie Ernaux gelingt es ganz hervorragend, in ihrem Roman noch einmal zu der innerlich zerrissenen, verliebten, magersüchtigen, ehrgeizigen jungen Frau zu werden, die sie war, als alles in ihr ins Wanken geriet.« Iris Radisch, Die Zeit

"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".

"J’ai voulu l’oublier cette fille. L’oublier vraiment, c’est-à-dire ne plus avoir envie d’écrire sur elle. Ne plus penser que je dois écrire sur elle, son désir, sa folie, son idiotie et son orgueil, sa faim et son sang tari. Je n’y suis jamais parvenue." Annie Ernaux replonge dans l’été 1958, celui de sa première nuit avec un homme, à la colonie de S dans l’Orne. Nuit dont l’onde de choc s’est propagée violemment dans son corps et sur son existence durant deux années. S’appuyant sur des images indélébiles de sa mémoire, des photos et des lettres écrites à ses amies, elle interroge cette fille qu’elle a été dans un va-et-vient entre hier et aujourd’hui.

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 visite dans un hypermarché Auchan. On redécouvre 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. (Source 4ème de couverture).

Est-ce que, moi, la petite fille de l''épicerie de la rue du Clos - des - Parts, immergée enfant et adolescente dans une langue parlée populaire, un monde populaire. je vais écrire, prendre mes modèles, dans la langue littéraire acquise, apprise, la langue que j''enseigne puisque je suis devenue professeur de lettres ? Est-ce que. sans me poser de questions, je vais écrire dans la langue littéraire où je suis entrée par effraction, " la langue de l''ennemi " comme disait Jean Genet, entendez l''ennemi de ma classe sociale ? Comment puis-je écrire, moi, en quelque sorte immigrée de l''intérieur ? Depuis le début j''ai été prise dans une tension, un déchirement même, entre la langue littéraire, celle que j''ai étudiée, aimée, et la langue d''origine. la langue de la maison, de mes parents, la langue des dominés. celle dont j''ai eu honte ensuite mais qui restera toujours en moi-même. Tout au fond la question est : comment en écrivant, ne pas trahir le monde dont je suis issue ?

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.

“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.

" Je n''ai jamais rien su de ses activités qui, officiellement, étaient d''ordre culturel. Je m''étonne aujourd''hui de ne pas lui avoir posé plus de questions. Je ne saurai jamais non plus ce que j''ai été pour lui. Son désir de moi est la seule chose dont je sois assurée. C''était, dans tous les sens du terme, l''amant de l''ombre. J''ai conscience de publier ce journal en raison d''une sorte de prescription intérieure, sans souci de ce que lui, S., éprouvera. A bon droit, il pourra estimer qu''il s''agit d''un abus de pouvoir littéraire, voire d''une trahison. Je conçois qu''il se défende par le rire ou le mépris, " je ne la voyais que pour tirer mon coup ". Je préférerais qu''il accepte, même s''il ne le comprend pas, d''avoir été durant des mois, à son insu, ce principe, merveilleux et terrifiant, de désir, de mort et d''écriture. "

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.

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"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.

Premiul Nobel pentru literatură 2022 „Tot trecutul este necesar pentru a iubi prezentul.“ Annie Ernaux De-a lungul câtorva zeci de pagini, Annie Ernaux recreează, prin intermediul unei relații cu un student mai tânăr cu trei decenii decât ea, „fata scandaloasă“ pe care a întrupat-o în tinerețe. Este o nouă versiune a scriitoarei, care-i îngăduie mai curând să analizeze trecutul decât să trăiască prezentul: femeia matură care ține de mână un bărbat mult mai tânăr este la fel de izolată și de „interpretată“ de societate cum fusese tânăra care își pierduse virginitatea cu decenii în urmă. Prezentul și trecutul se rescriu reciproc, se potențează și-și acordă noi modalități de interpretare. Paginile de Fotojurnal ce însoțesc microromanul așază această imagine a prezentului în rama memoriei revizitate. „O carte sublimă.“ Elle „Acum treizeci de ani, m-aș fi ferit de el. Pe atunci nu voiam să găsesc într-un băiat semnele originii mele modeste, tot ce consideram că este «de neam prost» și despre care știam că se aflase în mine.“ Annie Ernaux „Încă o dată, opera lui Annie Ernaux pare a fi un studiu riguros al vieții, dar și un experiment.“ Caroline Montpetit, Le Devoir „Proza lui Annie Ernaux taie până la os.“ The Guardian Annie Ernaux (n. 1940) s-a născut în Normandia, unde și-a petrecut copilăria și prima tinerețe. A urmat studiile superioare la Rouen, Bordeaux și Grenoble. A fost, până în anul 2000, profesoară de ciclu gimnazial secundar, construindu-și în același timp o impresionantă carieră literară. A primit cele mai importante distincții pentru literatură atât în Franța, cât și în străinătate (Prix Marguerite Yourcenar, Prix Renaudot, Premio Strega, Premio Formentor, Premio Gregor von Rezzori), iar din luna octombrie a anului 2022 este laureata Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură. Este singura autoare a cărei operă a fost publicată în prestigioasa serie Quarto a Gallimard în timpul vieții sale. În colecția Anansi. World Fiction urmează să apară L’Autre fille și L’Écriture comme un couteau.