Annie Ernaux Libri

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, il riscatto come piccola commerciante, lo sprofondare nel buio della malattia, e tutt’attorno la talvolta incomprensibile evoluzione del mondo, degli orizzonti, dei desideri. Scritte nella lingua «più neutra possibile» eppure sostanziate dalle mille sfumature di un lessico personale, famigliare e sociale, queste pagine implacabili si collocano nella luminosa intersezione tra Storia e affetto, indagano con un secco dolore – che sconvolge più di un pianto a dirotto – le contraddizioni e l’opacità dei sentimenti per restituire in maniera universale l’irripetibile realtà di un percorso di vita.

A deeply affecting tribute to her mother’s life and death by Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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.

Annie Ernaux passionately defends the power of literature and political writing in her Nobel Lecture, emphasizing that writing about personal experiences can alleviate loneliness and foster collective emancipation. She highlights her commitment to using her voice to witness life's joys and injustices, illustrating the profound impact of storytelling on individual worth. The book includes Ernaux's Nobel lecture, banquet speech, and additional remarks from Nobel Committee members, showcasing the significance of her work in contemporary literature.

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "Happening recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed — and world ominously narrowed — in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment." --The New York Times 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 finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience. Now an award-winning film by Audrey Diwan Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair.

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 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, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. While each of Ernaux's books contain an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, one of Ernaux's early works, concentrates the spotlight piercingly on Annie herself. Mixing affection, rage and bitterness, A Frozen Woman shows us Ernaux's developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the shortened form emerged that has since become her trademark.