Annie Ernaux: 15 books

Book cover of Écrire, écrire, pourquoi ? Annie Ernaux

Écrire, écrire, pourquoi ? Annie Ernaux

Entretien avec Raphaëlle Rérolle

by Raphaëlle Rérolle, Annie Ernaux
Language: French
Release Date: January 17, 2014

Annie Ernaux naît en 1940 à Lillebonne et grandit à Yvetot en Normandie où ses parents tiennent un café-épicerie. Cet ancrage social et géographique marquera son œuvre. Après des études supérieures, elle obtient l’agrégation de lettres et devient enseignante. Ses premiers romans sont...
Book cover of A Man's Place
by Annie Ernaux
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012

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...
Book cover of A Woman's Story
by Annie Ernaux
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

A New York Times Notable Book A Woman’s Story is Annie Ernaux’s "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...
Book cover of Happening
by Annie Ernaux
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

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....
Book cover of Memoria di ragazza
by Annie Ernaux
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 4, 2017

Estate 1958. Per la prima volta lontana dalla famiglia, educatrice in una colonia di vacanze, una diciottenne scopre se stessa: l’amore, il sesso, il giudizio degli altri, la fatica di essere giovani, la sete di libertà. Tra la luce delle foto di quel tempo e il buio dei ricordi rifiutati, Annie...
Book cover of La vergogna
by Annie Ernaux
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 14, 2018

«Ho sempre avuto voglia di scrivere libri di cui poi mi fosse impossibile parlare, libri che rendessero insostenibile lo sguardo degli altri.»Romanzo dell’infanzia e dei suoi abissi, La vergogna ricostruisce con spietata lucidità una presa di consapevolezza: quella di una bambina di dodici anni...
Book cover of The Possession
by Annie Ernaux
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

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.
Book cover of The Years
by Annie Ernaux
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017

*Shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize* 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 Considered by many to be the iconic French...
Book cover of Simple Passion
by Annie Ernaux
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

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 two-year...
Book cover of Gli anni
by Annie Ernaux
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 21, 2015

Come accade che il tempo che abbiamo vissuto diviene la nostra vita? È questo il nodo affrontato da Gli anni, romanzo autobiografico e al contempo cronaca collettiva del nostro mondo dal dopoguerra a oggi, nodo sciolto in un canto indissolubile attraverso la magistrale fusione della voce individuale...
Book cover of L'altra figlia
by Annie Ernaux
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 4, 2016

In un’assolata domenica d’estate una bambina ascolta per caso una conversazione della madre, e la sua vita cambia per sempre: i geni- tori hanno avuto un’altra figlia, morta ancora piccola due anni prima che lei nascesse. È una rivelazione che diviene lo spartiacque di un’infanzia, segna...
Book cover of Una donna
by Annie Ernaux
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 17, 2018

Pochi giorni dopo la morte della madre, Annie Ernaux traccia su un foglio la frase che diventerà l’incipit di questo libro. Le vicende personali emergono allora dalla memoria incandescente del lutto e si fanno ritratto esemplare di una donna del Novecento. La miseria contadina, il lavoro da operaia,...
Book cover of L'Autre Fille
by Annie ERNAUX
Language: French
Release Date: March 3, 2011

La révélation de L'Autre fille va bousculer toute l'œuvre qu'Annie Ernaux a consacrée à son enfance depuis La Place. " Car il a bien fallu que je me débrouille avec cette mystérieuse incohérence : toi la bonne fille, la petite sainte, tu n'as pas été sauvée, moi le démon j'étais...
Book cover of L'écriture comme un couteau

L'écriture comme un couteau

Entretien avec Pierre-Yves Jeannet

by Annie Ernaux, Fréderic-Yves Jeannet
Language: French
Release Date: January 8, 2003

« Tout au long de cet entretien avec Frédéric-Yves Jeannet, je n'ai eu comme souci que la sincérité et la précision, celle-ci se découvrant plus difficile à obtenir que celle-là. Il n'est pas aisé de rendre compte, sans l'unifier ni la réduire à quelques principes, d'une pratique d'écriture...
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