Simple Passion: Annie Ernaux

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L'Autre fille". theatre-cornouaille.fr. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022. Passion simple (2020; English title: Simple Passion) was directed by Danielle Arbid. It was selected to be shown at that year's Cannes Film Festival. [50] Agency, Hands. "Mémoire de fille". Mémoire de fille. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022.

It was after late bloomer Levy was shortlisted for the Booker prize for Swimming Home, aged 52, that she began her three-volume series of “living autobiographies”. The first, 2013’s Things I Don’t Want To Know, takes George Orwell’s essay Why I Write as a jumping-off point for her reflections on life as a young female writer. The next two books, The Cost of Living and Real Estate, examine what it means to be an artist, a woman, a mother and a daughter, while asking questions about modernity, creative identity and personal freedom. Levy describes the series as “hopefully not being written at the end, with hindsight, but in the storm of life”. Still, her mother’s strict “moral activism” (which Ernaux explores in her short account of Blanche’s life, A Woman’s Story , from 1988), together with her scorn towards “unuseful” women, ie women “who stayed at home and had no standing in the world”, has informed the economical or “factual” style of Ernaux’s books. She is determined that they be comprehensible to the social class she believes she betrayed by obtaining a degree in literature from the University of Rouen in 1971, becoming a published author and effectively joining the literary bourgeoisie. For Ernaux, influenced by the thinking of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, class mobility is a violent, brutal process, and she sees it as her duty to at least attempt, via writing, to make amends to those she has left behind. I have a text against Macron that my fingers are burning to write Kuhl, Heike Ina, ” Du mauvaisgoût” : AnnieErnauxsBildungsaufstiegalsliteratur- undgesellschaftskritischeSelbstzerstörung: EineUntersuchungihresWerksmithilfetextlinguistischer,psykologischerundsociologischerKriterien. – Berlin/Boston :De Gruyter, 2016 It occurred to me that writing should also aim for that—the impression conveyed by sexual intercourse, a feeling of anxiety and stupefaction, a suspension of moral judgement.' The book is also a bit of a meta-novel. She tells us she is writing the book as therapy to get over him. There's an extended analogy between her obsession with writing a book and trying to make it perfect with the way she tried to make her relationship perfect. Some passages about this:

Other books by Annie Ernaux

Perhaps the fullest expression of that obsession was her breakout work in the English-speaking world, The Years (2008). It was an attempt to offer a faithful account of an entire generation in France – from the outbreak of the second world war to the birth of the internet – braiding one woman’s impressions of the era (her own) through a broader swirl of imprints made by advertising, world events, and period-specific cinema and music. Ernaux did no research for the book; she simply, she explains, activated her “internal cinema” for each specific period she wanted to recall. Her process places extraordinary faith in the power of subjective memory, an approach she began in 1983 with A Man’s Place. She has expressedreservations about the potentially “falsifying” force of fiction. Her fidelity is above all to accuracy, to describing events she has observed or closely experienced herself with as much precision as she can summon. a b c Lodge, Guy (25 September 2020). " 'Simple Passion' Review: Explicit But Not Exploitative Erotic Drama Benefits From a Sharp Female Gaze". Variety . Retrieved 5 February 2023.

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Prix de la Langue Française"[French Language Award] (in French). Prix Littéraires. Archived from the original on 24 October 2021. The Years, Written by Annie Ernaux". The Booker Prize Foundation. 20 June 2018. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022. The Possession/ translated by AnnaMoschovakis. – NewYork :Seven Stories Press, 2008. – Translation of:L’occupation Spafford, Roz (13 July 1992). "Finding the World Between Two Parents". San Francisco Examiner. p.5 – Review. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 6 October 2022– via Newspapers.com. Grosjean, Blandine (10 December 2011). "Annie Ernaux: 'Passion amoureuse et révolte politique, cela va de pair' ". Le Nouvel Observateur (in French). Archived from the original on 10 October 2022 . Retrieved 10 October 2022.

a b c "Annie Ernaux". Premio Strega (in Italian). Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022. Ferniot, Christine (1 November 2005). "1983: La place par Annie Ernaux". L'EXPRESS (in French). Archived from the original on 29 October 2010 . Retrieved 31 October 2010. Monweek-endaucentrecommercial. Documentary. Director:NarunaKaplan de Macedo. Writers: AnnieErnaux,NarunaKaplan de Macedo. 2014 Annie Ernaux’s writing is throughout subordinated to the process of time. Nowhere else, the power of social conventions over our lives plays such an important role as in Lesannées (2008; The Years, 2017). It is her most ambitious project, which has given her an international reputation and a raft of followers and literary disciples. It has been called “the first collective autobiography” and the German poet Durs Grünbein has lauded it as a pathbreaking “sociological epic” of the contemporary Western world. Ernaux substitutes in the narrative the spontaneous memory of the self with the third person of collective memory, suggesting the force of zeitgeist on her life. There is no affective memory in the Proustian sense with which she can transport herself directly to her early years. Our lives are formed by the stories being told, the songs being sung or the trends in rule. And these conventions rapidly pass by. Therefore, Ernaux has great difficulty recognizing herself in the person that she once was. In Lesannées , personal and collective memory have merged together. In the early 1970s, Ernaux taught at a lycée in Bonneville, Haute-Savoie, [9] at the college of Évire in Annecy-le-Vieux, then in Pontoise, before joining the National Centre for Distance Education, [10] where she was employed for 23 years. [11] Literary career [ edit ]

Translated from French by Tanya Leslie (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021)

Programs – Missing Pictures". Moscow International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 4 December 2020 . Retrieved 2 February 2023. Ernaux was born in Lillebonne in Normandy, France, and grew up in nearby Yvetot, [4] where her parents, Blanche (Dumenil) and Alphonse Duchesne, [5] ran a café and grocery in a working-class part of town. [6] [7] In 1960, she travelled to London, where she worked as an au pair, an experience she would later relate in 2016's Mémoire de fille ( A Girl's Story). [7] Upon returning to France, she studied at the universities of Rouen and then Bordeaux, qualified as a schoolteacher, and earned a higher degree in modern literature in 1971. She worked for a time on a thesis project, unfinished, on Pierre de Marivaux. [8] Though she taught literature at secondary school from 1974, Ernaux has never taught creative writing and claims to be baffled by the fashionable US export of writing-workshop culture. It’s a stance perhaps in conflict with her otherwise strong public posture of sharing and open-source creation (Ernaux doesn’t believe she “owns” her texts and views her Nobel win as a collective effort). “I suppose these workshops help people not to make obvious faux pas,” she says now. “And, of course, there are writers who really need to know whether something’s good or not . But at the end of the day it’s only you who knows…” This brilliant work of auto-fiction explores the inner experience of an all-consuming passion, a love affair with a married foreigner. Ernaux really writes as erotic obsession feels. It is just that glaring, intense and brilliant. a b c "Biography". annie-ernaux.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 6 October 2022.

He had said, “You won’t write a book about me.” But I haven’t written a book about him, neither have I written a book about myself. All I have done is translate into words—words he will probably never read; they are not intended for him—the way in which his existence has affected my life. An offering of a sort, bequeathed to others.' Of course, he’s married with kids. He’s from Eastern Europe (she never tells us where), assigned to France for his job, and has brought his family with him. She lives for his calls and his hurried visits. When they are together she dreads seeing him sneak a glance at his watch and then suffers dejection as she watches him dress to leave.

Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel committee, said that in her work, “Ernaux consistently and from different angles, examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class”.