For once, the rumours have proved true. Wiederholt thematisierte sie ihren eigenen Lebensweg vom Arbeiterkind zur Autorin. Ernaux went to university in Rouen, where she studied literature. But into a well.” What draws her down? Her debut was Les armoires vides, published in 1974 in France and as Cleaned Out in English in 1990. In ihren folgenden Büchern. The Years covers six decades of social and personal history, from Ernaux’s working-class childhood in wartime and postwar Normandy – where she was born in 1940 – through the 1968 student uprisings, initial joy and later disillusionment during the long presidency of François Mitterand in the 1980s and 90s and on into the new millennium. Already, though, she is on her way to becoming someone else. She is more like a diver, glimpsing something glimmering far beneath the surface of consciousness and plunging after it. The same things that make many people love Ernaux make many others despise her. Ernaux had left the marriage for good. ‘It plunged me back to waiting for a period’: Annie Ernaux and Audrey Diwan on abortion film Happening, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, © 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Sie ist eine der bedeutendsten französischsprachigen Schriftstellerinnen unserer Zeit, ihre zwanzig Bücher sind von Kritik und Publikum gleichermaßen gefeiert worden. Relentlessly personal in her art, she has, in public life, taken on the role of the écrivaine engagée, outspokenly committed to a host of left-wing political causes, and, while she was being appreciated in New York, accusations lobbed by her conservative detractors were flying fast in France. Für mich war “Die Scham” das erste Buch, das ich von Annie Ernaux las. Since the nineteenth century, the area, which sits in a valley north of the Seine, had been dominated by cotton mills. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, © 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. The Nobel committee described her oeuvre on Thursday as “uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean.”, Nowhere is uncompromising style more apparent than in Ernaux’s account of the illegal abortion she had in 1963 as a student in Rouen. So much for her fancy education: “My ass had caught up with me, and the thing growing inside me I saw as the stigma of social failure.” Even so, she thought that getting the abortion would be easy. Ihre autobiografischen Texte sind mittlerweile zu großen Teilen auch auf Deutsch erschienen - allerdings in abweichender Reihenfolge. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Erforderliche Felder sind mit * markiert. Their work and discoveries range from paleogenomics and click chemistry to documenting war crimes. Ernaux’s father died two months after she passed her teaching exams. “I believe that any experience, whatever its nature, has the inalienable right to be chronicled,” she has written. I Remain in Darkness is the enigmatic title of one of the thinnest – but in my view also one of the most dense, poignant and vigorous – books of Annie Ernaux. She had paired her sober black trousers and shoes with splashes of color: a scarf the green of Giverny in summertime, a fuchsia blouse. Language is never neutral, Ernaux says. Was geschieht dann? It was her literary breakthrough and has already become a classic in modern French letters. “My whole life has been an effort to tear myself away from male desire, in other words, from my own desire,” Ernaux confesses. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach, Annie Ernaux Annie Ernaux, the 82-year-old French writer, who for the last couple of years has been touted as a favourite, has been announced as the winner of the 2022 Nobel prize for literature – only the 17th woman out 119 laureates in the award’s history. Dezember 2022 in Stockholm Ich bin damit einverstanden, dass mir Inhalte von Twitter angezeigt werden. Writer and critic Catherine Taylor explains how the French writer became the ‘great chronicler to a generation’ Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel prize in literature. In other words, I shall carry out an ethnological study of myself. But it is not the end of the book, only its halfway point. A. shares none of her intellectual interests, but so what? The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. Several outreach organisations and activities have been developed to inspire generations and disseminate knowledge about the Nobel Prize. First she scandalized Washington. L’affaire Richard Millet became a kind of referendum on what wasn’t yet termed cancel culture, with Ernaux denounced as a harridan intent on enforcing politically correct censorship at the expense of a man’s career. Chakraborty wrote: “The quality that distinguishes Ernaux’s writing on sex from others in her milieu is the total absence of shame. Jahrhunderts. In the uproar, Ernaux saw a renewal of the frightening wave of outrage that had engulfed her ten years ago, when she published a column in Le Monde decrying “A Literary Elegy for Anders Breivik,” a barely concealed apologia for the Norwegian mass murderer by Richard Millet, an author and editor at Gallimard. I wouldn’t have been able to transmit whatever it was that I needed to.”. Der Nobelpreis für Literatur wird seit 1901 vergeben und ist mit zehn Millionen schwedischen Kronen (rund 920.000 Euro) dotiert. Ernaux came from a working-class community, like French sociologist, public intellectual and writer Pierre Bourdieu, said Testard. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love without contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences. Wir geben es ja zu. Die technische Speicherung oder der Zugriff ist für den rechtmäßigen Zweck der Speicherung von Präferenzen erforderlich, die nicht vom Abonnenten oder Benutzer angefordert wurden. Want to Read. Annie Ernaux. Writing as simply as she could allowed Ernaux to be understood by her parents, and, later, by people like them. A Man’s Place is very much part of what Ernaux calls the “lived dimension of history” – it is dispassionate about the life of a working-class man of his time, a struggling grocer with minimal education: “no lyrical reminiscences, no triumphant displays of irony,” she warns us. For more than a century, these academic institutions have worked independently to select Nobel Prize laureates. But, for me, it’s the absolute opposite. Aber wir wollten es uns nicht nehmen lassen, spät, aber dennoch auf den Ernaux-Zug aufzuspringen und über ihre gefeierte Autobiografie "Die Jahre" zu sprechen. (“A bad joke,” she assumed. “I never considered writing to be a form of liberation,” she said. I knew about stolen youth, I said, but the idea of stolen old age hadn’t occurred to me. She was describing what it feels like when it happens, as you might describe a tornado that has flattened your house. Da arbeitete sie bereits als Gymnasiallehrerin, später unterrichtete sie als Dozentin an der staatlichen Fernuniversität. Annie. Look for popular awards and laureates in different fields, and discover the history of the Nobel Prize. At the same time, Ernaux says, l’écriture plate came to her naturally. Nach dem Besuch eines Mädchenpensionats studierte sie Literaturwissenschaften in Paris und promovierte 1971. , Ernaux ans Telefon zu bekommen. Does winning a prize—the prize—turn you into someone else? Although “Happening” is written with Ernaux’s usual piercing clarity, the book seems to unfold in a kind of suffocating twilight as the avenues pursued by the twenty-three-year-old Annie are shut off, one by one. A reader might expect a certain austerity in Ernaux’s manner, but she likes being around people, and it shows. Oct. 6, 2022. 6 Jun 2023. “Even now, to mention the Valley in prewar times is to evoke images of horror: the highest concentration of alcoholics and unmarried mothers, the damp running down the walls, and the babies dying from diarrhea within two hours,” Ernaux writes in “A Woman’s Story” (1987), a companion to “A Man’s Place” about her mother. “Exactly,” Ernaux said. Many authors write about their lives. Man habe Annie Ernaux noch nicht telefonisch erreichen können, sagte der Ständige Sekretär der Akademie, Mats Malm, bei der Bekanntgabe der Preisträgerin. Unleashed by the shock of her father’s attack on her mother—a good-natured man, he one day snapped under the pressure of Blanche’s hectoring, and grabbed a scythe—shame descended on eleven-year-old Annie like a kind of freak puberty, an irrevocable condition that marked childhood’s end. Annie Ernaux hat für ihr Werk zahlreiche Auszeichnungen erhalten, zuletzt den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Ernaux replied in kind: “Any attempt at style would have been taken as a snub.”. But there is also a psychological side to what Ernaux is doing. Alphonse was tall, owned a bicycle, and went to the cinema. Often, when I speak with other writers—with female writers, really—the image we have of writing really varies. Und auch, wenn man denkt, schon viel über das Leben und vor allem die Jugend von Annie Ernaux gelesen zu haben, packt Die Scham erneut. When she loses a contact lens and finds it on her lover’s penis, her first thought is of Zola, “who lost his monocle between the breasts of women.” Then there is the gulf between her devotion to her lover—“addiction” might be the better word—and her awareness of his obvious mediocrity. Blanche, whose “overriding concern” was to give her daughter “everything she hadn’t had,” insisted on sending Annie to a private Catholic school. The unravelling of an expert on serial killers. Sonja Finck übersetzt aus dem Französischen und Englischen, darunter Bücher von Jocelyne Saucier, Kamel Daoud, Chinelo Okparanta und Wajdi Mouawad. Shame will be released next year, as will Ernaux’s latest book Le jeune homme. She stays at home when she should go out; she doesn’t use the vacuum cleaner for fear of covering the phone’s ring. She knew that it would be painful. But the experience is neither one of “horror nor shame, only an obedience to what was happening.” Far from seeing herself as a victim, she becomes slavishly devoted to the fact of her submission before this indifferent “master.”. It took her nearly forty-five years to try to make sense of what this terrifying event meant to her, and, by the book’s end, she is still not sure that she has. Oktober 1963: Die 23-jährige Annie entdeckt, dass sie schwanger ist. “I have always wanted to write the sort of book that I find it impossible to talk about afterward, the sort of book that makes it impossible for me to withstand the gaze of others,” she writes. In the minds of others it does. It was David Ernaux-Briot’s idea to turn the decade of resulting footage into a film. »Ich war sehr überrascht«, sagte sie, es sei eine große Ehre, aber auch »eine große Verantwortung, nicht nur durch mein Schreiben eine Art von Genauigkeit und Gerechtigkeit gegenüber der Welt herzustellen«. Matter-of-factly she states: “Sex had caught up with me, and I saw the thing growing inside me as stigma of social failure.”. In one sequence, filmed at the Bayreuth Festival in the summer of 1973, Ernaux stands facing the camera, looking just like the modern young wife she is. Passion and grief often exist side by side. These are profound artistic questions, fundamental to both Ernaux’s creative practice and her moral principles. Here Ernaux risks indulgence. Fourteen laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize in 2022, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. Die 82-jährige französische Schriftstellerin ist vor allem bekannt für ihre autofiktionale Technik, mit der sie autobiografische Erlebnisse zu großer Literatur verdichtet. Critics on the classics: our 1991 review of “Thelma & Louise.”. This domestic period, when Ernaux’s sons were young and her marriage still intact, forms the basis of “The Super 8 Years.” In 1972, the Ernauxs bought a camera to make home videos. People took it for granted; no one seemed to be interested in commemorating the struggle, led by Simone Veil, to legalize it, or in remembering the horrors that women faced before. Als Annie dazukommt, steht der Vater mit erhobenem Beil über der Mutter, lässt beim Erscheinen der Tochter aber von ihr ab. Ernaux had managed to convey the force with which desire can render the rest of life—the rest of the self—instantly void. But it’s worthwhile waiting for. Proust had his madeleine. “Decidedly, this ‘academy’ of old shriveled bigwigs has gone a step further into the absurd and the indecent,” railed one editorial beneath the headline “The Nobel in Literature Definitively Discredited.” In the conservative newspaper Le Figaro, a writer disparaged the decision to award the “high priestess of autofiction” for a “lifetime spent writing about herself.”. Ernaux is the first French writer to win the Nobel since Patrick Modiano in 2014. Thalia Lübeck. The Swedish Academy is famous for its secrecy and its often apparently obscure choices. Das 2008 in Frankreich unter dem Titel Les années und 2017 auf Deutsch erschienene Werk [1] beschreibt die Jahre von etwa 1941, ihrem ersten Lebensjahr, bis zum Beginn des 21. I’m just observing what’s changed.”. In ihren folgenden Büchern thematisierte Ernaux unter anderem ihre Scheidung, ihre Abtreibung und ihre Krebserkrankung. “I’m already old,” she told me. Ernaux’s book “Happening,” in which she describes seeking an illegal abortion as a twenty-three-year-old student, is a feminist touchstone; it was adapted, last year, into a movie by the director Audrey Diwan. Publisher Jacques Testard described Ernaux as a very important feminist writer, and said The Years, the first book of hers he read, was “an absolutely phenomenal book, undoubtedly a masterpiece”. MLA style: What to read: Books by Annie Ernaux. It’s all over, no one needs to talk about it. Ad Choices. Ernaux was born in 1940 and grew up in the small town of Yvetot in Normandy. Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker. “Not a destiny that was written from the beginning. Photo: Monica Mileur. (Maybe the Wellesley students had a point.) It causes indescribable pain.” A different kind of pain follows a failed attempt to solve her problem with a pair of knitting needles. Yes, and that is what made “Simple Passion” so powerful, and so terrifying. Annie Ernaux wins Nobel prize in literature in 2022. Ohne eine Vorladung, die freiwillige Zustimmung deines Internetdienstanbieters oder zusätzliche Aufzeichnungen von Dritten können die zu diesem Zweck gespeicherten oder abgerufenen Informationen allein in der Regel nicht dazu verwendet werden, dich zu identifizieren. Nun aber will Annie Ernaux darüber schreiben. “What really interests me about youth is that it’s always the time that you remember later. Interested in reading a book by 2022 literature laureate Annie Ernaux but don’t know where to start? It is an account of the illegal abortion Ernaux underwent in the early 1960s, the circumstances leading up to it and its devastating consequences. “An ‘œuvre’ is something that’s closed,” she told me. But, while her work has been well known and well received in France since the 1970s, and published in English translation from 1991, it is only since around 2019, when The Years, her monumental work of fiction-memoir was shortlisted for the International Booker prize, that Ernaux has made a big impact on the anglophone world. Now Ernaux came into her own. Simple Passion: Annie Ernaux. The first few were what you and I would call autobiographical novels: the protagonists, young women to whom Ernaux lent her own thoughts and experiences, are clearly self-portraits. Last year the prize was awarded to Abdulrazaq Gurnah, for “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. But detachment doesn’t always equal indifference. Die Schwedische Akademie in Stockholm zeichnet sie »für ihren Mut und klinischen Scharfblick« aus. Both “A Man’s Place” and “A Woman’s Story” begin with a parent’s death, and not just the death; before we have even met these people, Ernaux shows us their corpses. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Over nearly fifty years, the Nobel laureate has discovered new ways to do it. Annie desperately tries to find a friend of a friend rumored to know an abortionist. The topic is lightly touched upon in her other books, but here described in detail. All rights reserved. All endings, in Ernaux’s world, are temporary. Margaret Drabble has commented that “Ernaux has inherited de Beauvoir’s role of chronicler to a generation” – now the great chronicler been justly rewarded with the greatest of literature prizes. . Die Gewinnerin der renommiertesten literarischen Auszeichnung der Welt steht fest: die französische Schriftstellerin Annie Ernaux. Her family was solidly religious, and Ernaux was the first to attend university. Auf der Umschlagsbanderole verkündet ein Zitat aus der Frankfurter Rundschau: „An den Büchern von Annie Ernaux führt kein Weg vorbei.“ Ganz richtig! In Deutschland erscheinen die Bücher von Annie Ernaux im Suhrkamp Verlag, in der Übersetzung von Sonja Finck. Sie kündigte an, zur Verleihung nach Stockholm zu kommen und eine Rede zu halten. Language was the original dividing line between the place her family came from and the one where she was going. Photograph by Bettina Pittaluga for The New Yorker, “We take classic dishes and reimagine them to be smaller than you’re used to.”. NobelPrize.org. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. “In a strange way, my inability to write my thesis was far more alarming than my need to abort,” Ernaux writes. Both Alphonse Duchesne and Blanche Duménil left school at the age of twelve, Alphonse to labor as a farmhand, Blanche for a job in a margarine factory. She wasn’t advocating for women to lose their heads over a man. Autorin. To this impulse she likes to pair forensic methods. They met while working at a rope factory in Yvetot, Blanche’s home town. “It was perfectly unreal,” Ernaux said. Now she is laid down on a strange man’s bed and watches as her body is used for his pleasure. Dem schwedischen Fernsehsender SVT gelang es schließlich doch How Should We Think About Our Different Styles of Thinking? Er gilt als die prestigeträchtigste literarische Auszeichnung der Welt. It was her fourth book, La place or A Man’s Place, that was her literary breakthrough. “I never wanted to write for,” Ernaux told me. In the UK, independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions has published eight of Ernaux’s books, with another two on the way. "A Girl's Story" was the missing piece in Ernaux's autobiographical puzzle. The clientele was poor, and often asked for credit; Alphonse worked other jobs to keep the family afloat. Read Edit View history Tools Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux ( née Duchesne; born 1 September 1940) is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". She published the books about her father and mother. Here, though, she was guided by someone else’s gaze—that of Philippe, the movie’s de-facto cinematographer, who, as Ernaux dryly remarked at the New York screening, died, in 2009, “of a smoker’s cancer.” It never occurred to either of them that she would use the camera herself. Photographs and newspaper records can be as important as her own journal entries as tools for reconstructing the past: Naturally I shall not opt for narrative, which would mean inventing reality instead of searching for it. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. A male friend whom she confides in invites her to dinner with his wife and child and then tries to seduce her. And I was another woman, too. On her third night there, she is selected by the twenty-two-year-old head counsellor for a tryst, though to put that word to their encounter would be to imply romance, or at least enjoyment. It’s almost impossible, and very painful, to think that it’s actually the same person portrayed in those two books. A few minutes after one in the afternoon, she turned on the transistor radio in her kitchen and heard her own name. Her most recent entry dated to the night before the announcement, when, in “a profound state of discontent,” she noted that if she won “they’ll steal my old age from me.” She would be too busy to write for at least a year. NobelPrize.org. “This knowledge—handed down from mother to daughter for many centuries—stops at my generation,” Ernaux writes. „An einem Junisonntag am frühen Nachmittag wollte mein Vater meine Mutter umbringen.“. Fourteen laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize in 2022, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. 2 CDs One of the phrases most associated with Ernaux, “transfuge de classe,” can seem derogatory. The October announcement frequently has journalists and editors frantically Googling that year’s recipient – and perhaps a decade ago, Annie Ernaux might have received the same treatment. “There’s a parade every Fourteenth of July,” Ernaux said. Hallo Lieferadresse wählen Bücher. Annie Ernaux, geboren 1940 in Yvetot, ist eine der Autor:innen, die schon seit einiger Zeit im Literaturnobelpreis-Pool kursierten, jetzt haben sich die Vorhersagen endlich erfüllt: Die. The Annie from 1958 is a missing person. Oktober 2022 Bücher & Autoren Das sind die meistverkauften Bücher von Annie Ernaux Annie Ernaux (Foto: CatherineHelie_Editions) Die Französin Annie Ernaux erhält den diesjährigen Literatur-Nobelpreis. This paradoxical wish, to reveal the darkest parts of herself with such pitiless accuracy that she will be forced to fall silent once and for all, is an extraordinary expression of writerly ambition. Some people say their thought takes place in images, some in words. Previous winners include Bob Dylan, cited for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”, and Kazuo Ishiguro “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. MLA style: Annie Ernaux – Facts – 2022. How to account for their particular power and the way that the truth changes, or doesn’t, when exposed to the forces of memory and time? Über die sogenannten Affiliate-Links oben erhalten wir beim Kauf in der Regel eine Provision vom Händler. Die Studentin aus bescheidenen Verhältnissen weiß: Wenn sie ein uneheliches Kind zur Welt bringt, wird sie alles verlieren. And when she with great courage and clinical acuity reveals the agony of the experience of class, describing shame, humiliation, jealousy or inability to see who you are, she has achieved something admirable and enduring. Desire in her brings forth more desire, the impulse of death, happiness, and even past trauma, like her abortion, but never humiliation. Given the chance to higher education and to lift herself out of the working-class milieu where she grew up, the young Annie realises that she must end the pregnancy. It’s a state, the one I happen to be in, and I don’t feel at all bad to be in it. Zuletzt gewann mit Patrick Modiano 2014 ein Autor aus Frankreich die wichtigste Literaturauszeichnung der Welt. Artikel Stichwort Annie Ernaux 11 Bücher Sinn und Form 1/2023. Die französische Autorin Annie Ernaux erzählt radikal ehrlich von ihrem eigenen Leben. But I won’t be able to remember my old age. “I am a medium,” she told me. All the while, she feels “time flowing inside and outside of me”—the common calendar moving forward, her private one moving back. Moreover it’s fascinating that the writer manages to uncover – or, to be honest, quite ruthlessly expose – the vulnerability of her mother with such unsentimental respect, such dignity. Zuerst erschien aufgrund seiner Popularität das relativ späte Die Jahre (Original 2008). But “Happening,” when it was published, got a tepid response. At the Walter Reade Theatre, and at previously scheduled events at Barnard and the French bookstore Albertine, she was greeted by packed, jubilant houses. I felt like I was reading a novel. She obliged, even when she saw a Swedish number popping up repeatedly on her caller I.D. But after they married, in 1964, the couple moved to Annecy for Philippe’s work and settled into a constricted domestic routine. She herself felt that “it was really a hallali”—a hunting call, with Ernaux as the chased stag. The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. She has kept a diary since she was sixteen—the practice forms the bedrock of her writing life—but she still hadn’t recorded the news in it. 5/5. Ankita Chakraborty in the Guardian said Ernaux’s Getting Lost, a book recording her obsessive affair with a Russian diplomat, would “become a kind of totem for lovers: a manual to help them find their centre when, like Ernaux, they are lost in love”. No: “An obsession.”, The image of the well brings to mind a rescue mission. She doesn’t write her way through life in the manner of a Karl Ove Knausgaard, detailing every inch of experience, volume by volume, into the present. September 1940 in Lillebonne, Seine-Maritime ), ist eine französische Schriftstellerin. “There is no such thing as a lesser truth.”. At twenty-two, Ernaux made a vow: “If by twenty-five I haven’t fulfilled my promise of writing a novel, I’ll commit suicide.” She did write one then, but she couldn’t get it published. “She’s been doing this for 50 years and there is a very genuine clarity to her work.”. Here is her father, who died unexpectedly at home at the age of sixty-seven—his open eyes, his bared gums, the spidery veins on his chest, even his penis, briefly exposed as his clothes are changed for burial—and here is her mother, wrapped in a sheet at the nursing home where she spent her last years, stricken with Alzheimer’s. Its opening is unforgettable: “My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon.” That was in the summer of 1952, when Ernaux was eleven. No photographs of her from that summer exist. Then, in 1991, came “Simple Passion,” and everything readers thought they knew about this restrained, cerebral woman went out the window. She saw the humiliating markers of her family’s status everywhere: at school, faced with the “indifference and scorn” of the other girls; at the dentist, where she was asked if a rotting tooth hurt when she drank cider, the drink of the working class. Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe) Literaturnobelpreisträgerin Annie Ernaux schildert in ihrem wohl bedeutendsten Roman "Die Jahre" EIN Leben und EINE Geschichte stellvertretend für VIELE. Several outreach organisations and activities have been developed to inspire generations and disseminate knowledge about the Nobel Prize. “And when she with great courage and clinical acuity reveals the agony of the experience of class, describing shame, humiliation, jealousy or inability to see who you are, she has achieved something admirable and enduring.”. Testard said Ernaux’s “literary project has been to write about her life and to get at the truth of it somehow … I think she’s written about every important event in her life, from becoming aware of what social classes are as a child, to the death of her father and the death of her mother, to the illegal abortion she had in France in the 1960s, to her first sexual experiences and then to writing about love and passion and desire,” he said. Aus dem Französischen von Sonja Finck An idea of some kind? “She brought me all my course notebooks, my math workbooks, everything I had, but not my diaries,” Ernaux told me. Sie ist eine der bedeutendsten französischsprachigen Schriftstellerinnen . Ernaux is wry on the subject of the couple’s interior decoration, the patterned wallpaper and objects carefully selected from antique stores, “all the things that marked us as newcomers to the bourgeoisie.” And then there is Ernaux herself. Tasked with a mission to manage Alfred Nobel's fortune and has ultimate responsibility for fulfilling the intentions of Nobel's will. “She did it so that my husband would never read them,” Ernaux said. Hier verlässt Ernaux die Distanzierung durch die Erzählweise in der dritten Person, die sie sonst häufig nutzt. In it, she finds her way back to the summer of 1958 and her first.
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