INTRODUCTION, NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION AND APPENDIX, SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY, LA PLACE, NOTES TO THE TEXT
Annie Ernaux was born in 1940 at Lillebonne, near the mouth of the Seine. Her early years were spent in the Lillebonne, Lisieux, Yvetot area, where her parents had a ‘café-épicerie’. After leaving school, she took a Lettres modernes degree and then the agrégation. She became a schoolteacher in the outskirts of Paris. She now teaches French literature at university level on a télé-enseignement course. Edited by P.M . Wetherill, Professor of French, University of Manchester.
