Likened to Simone de Beauvoir for her astute chronicling of a generation, Ernaux’s prose is intimate and unforgettable. Jer smrti dragih osoba su uvek i naše smrti – pozornica života je osuđena da bude ispražnjena, a svako nestajanje je nenadoknadivo. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Memory, its fickle nature, and the melancholy tone with which we reminisce and talk about the road not taken.

In the above paragraph, I sense her emotions of separation, the feeling of her father as unknowable, the sense of a lack of connection between them.Verirken de tıpkı Svetlana Aleksiyeviç’e verirken söylediğiniz gibi, “yeni bir edebi tür yarattığı için” verin ödülü. the remembering, the fighting to hold onto that, to become more of whoever you’re supposed to be or perhaps have decided to be or not to be because this man was your father.

içine girdiğim burjuva ve kültürlü dünyanın eşiğinde bırakmak zorunda kaldığım mirası gün ışığına çıkarma işini bitirdim.

While the use of gender in French grammar makes it both difficult, and potentially quite problematic, it also adds something - especially in situations like this where more can be read into it. It's therefore no surprise to find that some people compare Ernaux's work to Modiano's, such as in the case of Sarah Elizabeth Cant 's thesis , which is referenced in the Further Reading section of Ernaux's Wikipedia entry . But still she does it – and it is thrilling to read Ernaux working out, word by word, what she deems appropriate to include in each text. The next time I feel like whining about my lot in life I think I’ll just grab this book and read a few pages and that will set me straight.

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. I devoured them some 20 years ago and I imagine over the next year I will re-read all of them as well as read a couple I have not read as of yet.

It’s clear from the start that she doesn’t much care whether we like her or not, because she has no interest in herself as an individual entity. Ao mesmo tempo que faz uma homenagem a seu falecido pai em O lugar, Annie Ernaux parece realizar uma autocrítica. In exchange he was given a place to sleep, free meals, some pocket money, and they did his laundry for him. os vizinhos, os clientes, toda a gente), o mau francês, motivo de troça, quando uma filha de operário casava grávida, todo o bairro sabia.

Por opção, afinal, Annie Ernaux ao narrar a vida do seu pai, uma vida sujeita a necessidades, não pretendeu fazer algo de apaixonante ou emocionante; não há poesia de recordação, nem de escárnio jubiloso.L'autrice sembra essere sempre in grado di identificare le forme mentis dei genitori anche in diverse situazioni e anche a distanza di anni.