32 results for 'Ernaux'

A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux is a deeply affecting account of the bond between mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality. Upon her mother's death from Alzheimer's, Ernaux...

Annie Ernaux and Photography brings together the celebrated writing of Annie Ernaux with photographs from Maison Européenne de la Photographie's collection. This project by writer and curator Lou...

Understanding "Regarde Les Lumières Mon Amour" - Analysis of Key Passages from Annie Ernaux's Novel An in-depth examination of key passages from Annie Ernaux's novel, providing insight into the...

The Possession is a deeply personal and introspective work by Annie Ernaux, exploring the complexities of self-examination and the aftermath of a love affair. Through a nuanced and often painful...

A Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux is a deeply personal exploration of the author's teenage awakening and her struggle to balance desire and ambition. As Ernaux recounts her journey, she reveals a...

The Years by Annie Ernaux is a deeply personal and collective narrative that spans five decades. Through a unique blend of memory, impressions, and projections, Ernaux recounts the period from 1941...

The Years by Annie Ernaux Considered a defining work of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions...

Happening is a deeply personal and powerful account of a pivotal moment in the life of Annie Ernaux, a young woman whose life was forever changed in 1963. At 23, Ernaux found herself facing an...

The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006, told through the lens of memory, impressions, and reflections. Annie Ernaux weaves a narrative that is both intimate and impersonal,...

Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion is a stark and unflinching exploration of the human heart's all-consuming passions. The author's spare style documents the desires and indignities of a 2-year...

Annie Ernaux's "Things Seen" is a deeply personal and thought-provoking work that explores the intersections of everyday life and extraordinary events. Through her characteristic keen language and...

Annie Ernaux's A Girl's Story is a powerful exploration of memory and identity. Fifty years after a pivotal moment in her life, Ernaux returns to revisit the young woman she once wanted to forget. In...

Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into...

Annie Ernaux's A Man's Place is a poignant exploration of family, identity and social class. The author recounts her father's life story, from his humble beginnings to his gradual ascent towards...

Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion is a stark and unflinching portrayal of a human heart consumed by passion. The author's spare style documents the desires and indignities of a two-year relationship with...

Annie Ernaux's Happening is a deeply personal and unflinching account of her experience with an unwanted pregnancy in 1960s France. At just 23, Ernaux faced a traumatic situation that would have...

A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux is a deeply personal and introspective work that explores the author's formative experiences. In 1958, Ernaux spent a summer working at a holiday camp in Normandy,...

Getting Lost is Annie Ernaux's diary from 1989, a year and a half spent in secret love affair with a married man. This unfiltered account offers an intimate look at the author's life, where desire...

Annie Ernaux's A Man's Place is a poignant exploration of family dynamics and social class. The author recounts her father's life, from his childhood as an uneducated labourer to his eventual...

Annie Ernaux's "Things Seen" is a deeply personal and thought-provoking work that explores the intersections between everyday life and the world around us. Through her characteristic keen language...

I Remain in Darkness by Annie Ernaux is a deeply personal and poignant exploration of ageing, familial love, and loss. When her mother's Alzheimer's disease becomes unmanageable, Ernaux embarks on a...

Exteriors is a poignant and lyrical exploration of contemporary life in Paris. Through a series of journal entries spanning seven years, Annie Ernaux captures the fleeting encounters that take place...

L'événementA deeply personal and powerful exploration of one woman's experience of abortion, Annie Ernaux's L'événement is a novel that plunges the reader into the intense emotions of a moment in...

Annie Ernaux's Nobel Lecture is a powerful assertion of the capacity of writing to give people a sense of their own worth. In this stirring defence of literature and political writing, she argues...

Annie Ernaux's latest work is a deeply personal exploration of time, memory, and writing. The book recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior, an experience that transforms her,...

Do What They Say Or Else is Annie Ernaux's second novel, originally published in 1977. Set in France, it tells the story of a young girl's transition from middle school to high school.The novel...

The story of a social rupture, told by a young woman trapped between two worlds: her working-class parents and the more refined world of their middle-class friends. This gap in understanding leads to...

Shame begins with a shocking and pivotal moment: a Sunday in June, when a father's violent act changes the course of a young girl's life forever. This powerful and deeply personal story explores the...

Annie Ernaux's "Look at the Lights, My Love" is a thought-provoking exploration of the modern shopping experience. Over the course of a year, the French writer observes the inner workings of a...

Thirty years old and a mother of two, she is a woman who has lost touch with her own desires. Her life is filled with the mundane tasks of work, household chores, and childcare, leaving little room...

Luxury, Sensation and the Moving Image by Alice Blackhurst explores the evolution of luxury in recent years, tracing shifts away from ownership towards experiential, immaterial forms of pleasure...

Leftovers Eating, Drinking and Re-Thinking with Case Studies from Post-War French Fiction by Ruth Cruickshank. Eating and drinking are fundamental to human survival, yet they also carry complex...