This sequel to A Man's Place and prequel to Simple Passion is Ernaux's description of a transformation from girlhood into womanhood. A fictionalized account of the author's teenage awakening and of her later life as a 30-year-old married teacher and mother of two infant sons, A Frozen Woman mixes affection, rage, and bitterness to reveal Ernaux at her most harrowing, affecting, and inspiring.
This sequel to A Man's Place and prequel to Simple Passion is Ernaux's description of a transformation from girlhood into womanhood. A fictionalized a...
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.
Self-regard, in the works of Annie Ernaux, is always an excruciatingly painful and exact process. Here, she revisits the peculiar kind of self-fulfill...
Annie Ernaux s work, wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory. In the New York Times Book Review, Kathryn Harrison concurred: Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse. In this journal Ernaux turns her penetrating focus on those points in life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where things seen reflect a private life meeting the larger world. From the war crimes tribunal in...
Annie Ernaux s work, wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persisten...
"Je n'entendrai plus sa voix. ... J'ai perdu le dernier lien avec le monde dont je suis issue." - Der 1988 erschienene kurze (und sprachlich nicht schwierige) Roman ist die Auseinandersetzung der Erzählerin mit dem Tod ihrer Mutter - eine Rückschau auf das Leben dieser Frau und zugleich eine neue Sicht auf die eigene Vergangenheit. Annie Ernaux, 1940 geboren, zählt zu den renommiertesten Autorinnen, ihr Werk wurde mit zahlreichen Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet, u.a. dem 'Prix Renaudot'. §§Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger...
"Je n'entendrai plus sa voix. ... J'ai perdu le dernier lien avec le monde dont je suis issue." - Der 1988 erschienene kurze (und sprachlich nicht sch...