Annie Ernaux, daughter, student, aspiring author and mother, dissects the personality of her father, that loving and scary figure many of us had and someday might even become. From childhood to old age, trying to find a place in a society he belongs and doesn’t. And in doing so, taking him part by part, we discover everything that made him be, parent’s parts we may even recognize, in ours. Ernaux realiza um compêndio de sua família normanda na pequena Y. (possivelmente Yvetot), tendo os seus pais nascido em situações de grande miséria numa França que em pleno século XIX e início do século XX ainda aparentava condições de vida quase medievais em muitas de suas regiões.

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Cette fille, Annie Ernaux, refuse l'oubli des origines. Elle retrace la vie et la mort de celui qui avait conquis sa petite "place au soleil". Et dévoile aussi la distance, douloureuse, survenue entre elle, étudiante, et ce père aimé qui lui disait : "Les livres, la musique, c'est bon pour toi. Moi, je n'en ai pas besoin pour vivre."When we get to the end of the book, we still do not feel like we fully know the man whose life it depicts. A Man’s Place marks its own reliance on absence by refusing to satisfy. Neither does it tell us much about Ernaux’s own life, despite the elements of autobiography. The years comprising her teacher training, her university degree and her marriage are blurred. Any emotional response to her father’s death – or even to his life – is largely absent. Ernaux’s father grew up in a poor farming family in Normandy and the book begins with his death, which came exactly two months after Ernaux passed her exams for a teaching certificate. The proximity of these two events makes her reflect on the gulf that had widened between Ernaux and her father as she grew up. As she progressed through school, attended university and entered the world of the highly educated, he, hardened by a life of physical labour, looked on her achievements with suspicion, if a quiet admiration too. annie ernaux’nun ergenliğinde babasıyla arasındaki çatlışma, babasından utanması, anlaşamaması, sonrasında burjuva kocasıyla yaşadığı yabancılık… bunlar da var üstelik. A book written by an author about her father after his death will always be an emotional one. But this book is something different as it belongs to the category of therapeutic writing. Ernaux also talks about this therapeutic writing beautifully in her other book, A Woman's Story. They were convinced that being well-read and well-mannered were marks of an inner excellence that was innate.

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Il posto è lo spazio invisibile che separa gli esseri umani, quella distanza che va a crearsi tra le vite delle persone e che la letteratura può cercare di descrivere, senza poter colmare. pg 13 - This neutral way of writing comes to me naturally. It was the same style I used when I wrote home telling my parents the latest news. The few outbursts Ernaux permits her teenage self are invariably to do with language: “How do you expect me to speak properly if you keep on making mistakes?” Language was Ernaux’s father’s embarrassment, but it’s Ernaux’s, too. A book cannot capture everything – it can only do its best. Slowly and with difficulty, Ernaux’s fiction sets out to tell the story of her father against this matter-of-fact adage. these french writers and their fragile lives enclosed in steely armour. the cliche is Passion but my experience has been Passionless Renderings of Puppet Lives. intellectual, très intellectual. Ernaux does write beautifully. she also writes like the Queen of Insects, studying her insect kingdom, watching and reporting on their movements, their scurrying, their little lives. how can such a good writer be a writer who leaves me so cold? still, the style is compelling if not particularly moving. Spare. Dry. Unromantic. the novel as a brilliant analysis, as a clinical dissection - with just as much warmth. if i were to judge a country based on its books, i would assume that France is draped in perpetual winter. the novel is apparently considered a national treasure. oh, you french people. so french! 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.

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Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance.In 2017, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her life’s work. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Tuttavia manca una riflessione generale (inusuale rispetto a romanzi come Memoria di ragazza o L'evento), e forse il lettore ne avrebbe avuto bisogno anche in quest'opera. Un tentativo almeno, anche se inconcludente, di interpretare il rapporto con il padre in qualche maniera, di unire i punti per capire le tracce che il passaggio attraverso il mondo di questa persona ha lasciato e l'influenza su chi ci è rimasto. Quizá su mayor orgullo, o puede que hasta la justificación de su existencia es que yo pertenezca a un mundo que lo había despreciado a él.”Revisiting painful periods is hardly new territory for writers, but Ernaux distills a particular power from the exercise.’ We can see Ernaux thinking about writing about her father while waiting for news of her first job. Her words truly reflect the complicated relationship she had with her family. In Happening, a stirring account of the illegal abortion she had in Paris in the early Sixties, Ernaux realised the power one wields in writing true stories that involve others. When she suffered a haemorrhage and was admitted to hospital, a young doctor treated her poorly. “If I had been told the name of the junior doctor who was on duty that night – 20-21 January, 1964 – and if I still remembered it, nothing would stop me from divulging it here,” she wrote.