Je n'y ai pas pas trouvé deux sous de sensibilité, ni d'empathie : l'oncle y devient "le frère de mon père" et le fils de l'autrice y est même nommé "l'enfant". Moreover it’s fascinating that the writer manages to uncover – or, to be honest, quite ruthlessly expose – the vulnerability of her mother with such unsentimental respect, such dignity. I asked myself several times during the reading: “Is this really okay?” Sometimes the writer seems to cross the fine line between honesty and cruelty, and yet… she always manages to end up on the right side of this sharp edge. All because of love. proprio nel modo in cui viene vestito il corpo del padre appena morto, dopo avergli chiuso gli occhi, pur facendo presto per anticipare l’irrigidimento. Other volumes were borne of, among other things, terror (her mother’s descent into dementia), desire (a love affair with a married man), physical pain (an illegal abortion), familial pain (the death of an older sister Ernaux never knew), shame, grief and guilt (should she be setting any of this down at all?). “Literature is so powerless,” she writes. And, in Passion simple: “Sometimes I wonder if the purpose of my writing is to find out whether other people have done or felt the same things.” The Possession/ translated by AnnaMoschovakis. – NewYork :Seven Stories Press, 2008. – Translation of:L’occupation

Things Seen/ translated by JonathanKaplansky ;foreword by Brian Evenson. –Lincoln :University of Nebraska Press, 2010. – Translation of: La vieextérieure

annie ernaux’nun ergenliğinde babasıyla arasındaki çatlışma, babasından utanması, anlaşamaması, sonrasında burjuva kocasıyla yaşadığı yabancılık… bunlar da var üstelik. The Years/ translated by Alison L. Strayer. – NewYork :Seven Stories Press, 2017. – Translation of: Lesannées Bérengère Moricheau-Airaud, « Propriétés stylistiques de l’auto-sociobiographie: l’exemplification par l’écriture d’Annie Ernaux», COnTEXTES. Revue de sociologie de la littérature, n o18,‎ 18 décembre 2016 ( ISSN 1783-094X, DOI 10.4000/contextes.6235, lire en ligne, consulté le 14 juillet 2019)

Simple Passion/ translated by Tanya Leslie. – NewYork :Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993. – Translation of: Passion simple All three of these authors focus on what the grand narratives leave out. When Alexievich first tried to publish her magnificent book The Unwomanly Face of War, a Soviet censor told her: “We don’t need your little history. We need the big history.” Many years later, Alexievich’s record triumphed, and now Ernaux’s Nobel puts the nail in the coffin of that censor and his partners in thought: we all need little histories. They’re what literature is made of.

He climbed to a middle-management position and then bought his café-grocer’s shop in a small town. All his life, he struggled with money, to pay for the shop, to keep it afloat, always scraping by and worrying about money. Threaded through the text are not only milestones (the end of the war, the birth of the computer, the mobile phone) but things society doesn’t know, or doesn’t say, at the time. She feels she missed out on the civil unrest of May 1968 – she was “too settled” at the time – but is perhaps still a product of it. This sense of being adjacent yet subject to the great sweep of time is The Years’ great, humble achievement. J'ai un peu de colère ce matin, un peu d'indignation : je viens de lire La Place. Probablement pas de quoi se mettre en rogne, penseront certains. Peut-être, mais c'est assez spécial pour moi cette affaire.

That is a good question. The theme is common in books written by children of immigrants. An author who comes to mind is Richard Rodriguez, who is Mexican-American and gay, and writes about the way his education alienated him from his parents and culture in Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982) and Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father (1992) He would be honored by her book about him, I think, but also he'd make fun of her seriousness, including some of the (very few) observations of an educated daughter, though she is careful to honor him though her use of language. She uses words to create a man, her father, though they are not quite his words. They are a daughter's loving, respectful words. ernaux bu kitapta aşkı, meşki de atmış kenara bir yüzyılın tarihini yazmış kendince. aynı zamanda köle gibi çalışılan bir zamandan işçiliğe, sonrasında ise esnaflığa uzanan bir sınıf yolculuğu bu. Le malheur, c'est qu'aux rares passages où cette dernière décide de se lancer dans de petites prouesses de style, elle y devient aussitôt inintelligible et inaudible. Although Ernaux is always billed as autofiction, I read it as autobiography, particularly as the editions I have are white Fitzcarraldo ones which are supposed to be non-fiction. That’s by the by, really. I think she’s such an impressive writer – her prose is so deceptively simple yet conveys so much, and in short books. Such a good author.Pechota, Cornelia, Verleiblichung beiPeterStammundAnnieErnauxin” Nacht istderTag” und” Erinnerung einesMädchens”. –Bern :Peter Lang, 2020 Annie Ernaux, hija, estudiante, aspirante a escritora y madre, disecciona la personalidad de su padre, esa entrañable y aterradora figura que muchos tuvimos y que algún día tal vez seremos. Desde la niñez hasta la vejez, tratando de encontrar un lugar en una sociedad a la que pertenece y no. Y en el proceso, dividiéndolo en pedazos, descubrimos todo lo que lo hizo ser, partes de padres que tal vez reconozcamos, en los nuestros. This is the first time I am reading a book that is considered therapeutic writing by the author. I think it will give readers a different reading experience compared to other memoirs.

Passion Perfect/ translated by Tanya Leslie. –London :Quartet, 1993. – Translation of Passion simple

They were convinced that being well-read and well-mannered were marks of an inner excellence that was innate. It is difficult to write about our loved ones after their death during the time of grief as we will have to relive our memories which will make us happy and sad at the same time.