Annie Ernaux, for the deep, introspective reader 📚📖
Annie Ernaux is a French author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2022. Annie Ernaux's writing is praised for its simplicity and clarity, but also for its ability to address complex social issues. Here, you'll discover a curated collection of...
"Happening" is a memoir by Annie Ernaux that was originally published in French in 2000. The book is about Ernaux's experiences of having an illegal abortion in France in the winter of 1963, while she was a student in Rouen. The book is a novella-len...
"The Years" is a personal narrative by Annie Ernaux that covers the period from 1941 to 2006. The book is a blend of memories, dreams, facts, and meditations that provide a unique evocation of the times in which we lived. It is a personal memoir writ...
"Getting Lost" is a diary by Annie Ernaux that covers the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. The book is a frank and honest look into the affair that Ernaux had with a younger, married man as...
"Simple Passion" is a memoir by Annie Ernaux that covers the story of an all-consuming love affair. The book details the way in which Ernaux's obsession with her lover takes over every aspect of her life, so that both daily events and more significan...
"A Woman's Story" is a memoir by Annie Ernaux that tells the story of her mother's life and death. The book is a deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality. Upon her mother's death from Alzheimer's, Ernau...
"A Man's Place" is a memoir by Annie Ernaux that tells the story of her relationship with her father. The book is a translation of Ernaux's memoir of her father, "La Place," which won the Prix Renaudot in 1984. The book begins with the death of Ernau...
"Shame" is a memoir by Annie Ernaux that tells the story of a traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. The book begins with the sentence "My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." The book...
"A Girl's Story" is a memoir by Annie Ernaux that revisits the summer of 1958, when she was 18 years old and working as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy. The book recounts the first night she spent with a man and the aftermath of that experience...
"The Young Man" is a novella-length memoir by Annie Ernaux that tells the story of her affair with a man 30 years her junior. The book is a dazzling and breathtaking account of love, aging, and desire. The book was first published in France in 2022 a...
"Look at the Lights, My Love" is a novel by Annie Ernaux that explores the themes of memory, identity, and the passage of time. The book is a collection of vignettes that capture the essence of Ernaux's life in the 1950s and 1960s, from her childhood...
"The Possession" is a novel by Annie Ernaux that tells the story of a woman who becomes obsessed with a man she barely knows. The book is a striking portrait of a woman after a love affair has ended. Ernaux pulls the reader through every step of jeal...
"A Frozen Woman" is a novel by Annie Ernaux that tells the story of a woman's passage from girlhood to adulthood. The book is longer than most of Ernaux's recent fiction and is a striking portrait of a woman's life. The book begins with the narrator'...
"I Remain in Darkness" is a memoir by Annie Ernaux that recounts her attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease. The book is a powerful meditation on aging and familial love. Ernaux's writing style is candid and straightforward, wit...
"Exteriors" is a novel by Annie Ernaux that captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. The book is a poetic and chaotic exploration of the author's life in the suburbs. Ernaux's writing style is praised for its precise and...