A Man's Place: Annie Ernaux

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Hay que admirar la habilidad de Ernaux para escribir de una manera tan alejada y sin emoción, como un reportero transmitiendo las noticias.

Quizá su mayor orgullo, o puede que hasta la justificación de su existencia es que yo pertenezca a un mundo que lo había despreciado a él. His lack of proper education affected his confidence and caused a lot of friction in his relationship with his daughter (author). Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. When I come up against a term that doesn’t settle with me, but I appreciate or enjoy the work, I simply set aside the term, and tell myself that marketing departments make decisions differently than readers do! She has to make her own metamorphosis from blue-collar to intellectual bourgeoisie and it is not easy as people in her new world look down on people from her old world.Quite often, and just for a moment, I can’t recollect which came first: that windy April in Lyon when I stood waiting at the Croix-Rousse bus stop, or that stifling month of June, the month of his death. Và tôi đã phải bỏ việc dọn nhà sang một bên, để đọc lại cuốn sách một lần nữa, có lẽ chỉ vì cái tên mang lại nhiều đồng cảm với tình trạng hiện tại của bản thân, ừ thì, ai lại chẳng cần một chỗ trong đời, nhưng "chỗ" ấy là một nơi chốn cụ thể nhưng cũng có thể chỉ là một ai đó để ta nương tựa mà chỗ của ta là ở bên cạnh người đó.

ve bu yüzden de bu kısacık, hiçbir fazlalığı olmayan, sade yazım şekli de bendeki etkisini daha da büyütüyor.Ernaux usa uno stile anteriore, mette fra la penna e il sé sulla pagina una distanza oggettiva che crea una storia di fiducia e innocenza e nel linguaggio lirico ci consegna un segreto fedele al riparo necessario, alla comune salvezza, alla sorvegliata destinazione.

But still she does it – and it is thrilling to read Ernaux working out, word by word, what she deems appropriate to include in each text. In the course of the aforementioned interview with The Guardian to celebrate the release of I Remain In Darkness , she says: “It’s the work of a novelist to tell the truth. While the use of gender in French grammar makes it both difficult, and potentially quite problematic, it also adds something - especially in situations like this where more can be read into it. I’ve read three Ernaux so far – A Girl’s Story, Happening, and The Years of which Years is probably most praised but the one that impacted me least.The attitude of her new milieu makes her ashamed of her background: Il se trouve des gens pour apprécier le « pittoresque du patois » et du parler populaire. I devoured them some 20 years ago and I imagine over the next year I will re-read all of them as well as read a couple I have not read as of yet.

Não é a toa que a autora tenha citado Jean Genet em sua epígrafe à sua obra: Arrisco uma explicação, escrever é o último recurso quando se traiu. L'autrice sembra essere sempre in grado di identificare le forme mentis dei genitori anche in diverse situazioni e anche a distanza di anni. I also read it now because I saw Ilse had been reading Ernaux’s work and as so often happens with Ilse, she nudged me (gently, urgently) through her lovely review to read her work.

What is hard is to move into intellectual/cultured circles when you don’t come from the same background. And here, what Ernaux shows beautifully is the difference of attitude towards life and a total lack of entitlement on her parents’ part.