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1) Exteriors
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Taking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive.
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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...
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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...
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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 thirty 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,...
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In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the season fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another's will and desire. In the summer of 1958, eighteen-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a man's, and then he moves on, leaving her without a "master," bereft. Now, fifty years later, she realizes she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman that she wanted to forget completely. And to discover that...
6) Shame
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"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...
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Mi madre sufrió la enfermedad de Alzheimer a principios de los años 80. Al final, tuve que ingresarla en una residencia de ancianos. Siempre que volvía de mis visitas, necesitaba escribir sobre ella, sobre su cuerpo, sus palabras, el lugar donde se encontraba. No sabía que aquel periodo me conduciría hacia su muerte, en 1986. Al hacer públicas estas páginas, las revelo tal y como fueron escritas, fruto del estupor y el trastorno que entonces...
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Tiene treinta años, es profesora, casada con un ejecutivo, madre de dos niños. Vive en una casa confortable. Sin embargo, es una mujer helada.
Igual que miles de mujeres ha sentido cómo su curiosidad, su impulso vital se iban anquilosando a fuerza de un trabajo que compaginar con compras que hacer, cenas que cocinar, baños de niños que preparar Todo eso que se entiende por la condición normal de mujer. Annie Ernaux cuenta brillantemente esta...
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Es la historia de una ruptura social, de una hija atrapada entre dos mundos: el de sus padres, proletarios, poco instruidos, que se ganan la vida con el sudor de su frente, y el de los burgueses, educados, con acceso a la cultura, que se ganan la vida sin arrugarse el traje. Existe una brecha entre lo que estos padres entregados se merecen por los sacrificios hechos para criar a su hija y lo que esta niña es capaz de darles. Este desfase conlleva...
10) Una mujer
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Annie Ernaux se esfuerza aquí por reencontrar los diferentes rostros y la vida de su madre, muerta el 7 de abril de 1986, al término de una enfermedad que había destruido su memoria y su integridad intelectual y física. Ella, tan activa, tan abierta al mundo. Búsqueda de la existencia de una mujer, obrera, luego comerciante ansiosa por mantener su nuevo estatus y por aprender. Puesta al día, también, de la evolución y la ambivalencia de los...
11) Happening
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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...
12) La ocupación
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Fui yo quien dejó a W., tras una relación de seis años. Por cansancio pero también al no verme capaz de cambiar mi libertad, recuperada tras dieciocho años de matrimonio, por una vida en común que él deseaba fervientemente desde el principio. Unos meses después, W. me anunció que se iba a vivir con una mujer cuyo nombre no quiso decirme. A partir de ese momento caí presa de los celos. La imagen y la existencia de la otra mujer se convirtió...
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Durante un año, aproximadamente, sin una regularidad fija, Frédéric-Yves Jeannet le envió a Annie Ernaux una serie de preguntas y reflexiones. En sus respuestas, la autora de «La mujer helada» y «Los años» se esfuerza por rendir cuentas de una praxis de escritura iniciada décadas atrás, por describir su manera de trabajar, por hacer explícitas las «razones» de sus textos. La presente edición incorpora dos nuevos capítulos que amplían...
14) The Possession
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Self-regard, in the works of Annie Ernaux, is always an excruciatingly painful and exact process. Here, she revisits the peculiar kind of self-fulfillment possible when we examine ourselves in the aftermath of a love affair, and sometimes, even, through the eyes of the lost beloved.
15) Simple Passion
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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 two-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,...
16) A Man's Place
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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...
17) The Young Man
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The Young Man is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some thirty years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time-together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls...
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