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Author Ernaux, Annie, 1940- author.

Title The years / Annie Ernaux ; translated by Alison L. Strayer
Published New York : Seven Stories Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (166 pages)
Summary "Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present -- even projections into the future -- photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for the ever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective. On its 2008 publication in France, The Years came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, The Years was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir "written" by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. Like the generation before hers, the narrator eschews the "I" for the "we" (or "they", or "one") as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents' generation ceased to exist. She writes of her parents' generation (and could be writing of her own book): "From a common fund of hunger and fear, everything was told in the "we" and impersonal pronouns.""-- Provided by publisher
Notes Originally published in French as Les Années (Paris : Gallimard, ©2008)
Translated from the original French into English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 14, 2020)
Subject Ernaux, Annie, 1940-
SUBJECT Ernaux, Annie, 1940- fast
Subject Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
HISTORY -- Social History.
Authors, French
Reading List ALL784 prescribed text 2024
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Strayer, Alison L., translator.
LC no. 2017023091
ISBN 9781609807887
160980788X
Other Titles Années. English