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A cela je vous répondrai, sans hésitation aucune, que pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse et qu'un tien vaut mieux que deux tu l'auras ... A Girl’s Story/ translated by Alison L. Strayer. – NewYork :Seven Stories Press, 2019 Bibliography – a selection Works in French a b et c « From the Archive», Publishers Weekly, vol.269, n o42,‎ 10 octobre 2022, p.16–17 ( lire en ligne, consulté le 23 octobre 2022) This book though short, tells us a lot about the family life of hardworking people in France. Annie calls her writing style a neutral way of writing. She shares all the thoughts that went through her mind while writing this book

Your recommendation conforts what I wrote in my billet : changing of social class can be a similar experience to immigration. I have been confused with the type of relationship the author had with her father, especially in the initial part of this book. Did she actually love him or hate him? I know love is a complicated feeling that can't be explained by objective answers. Still, I felt that the author should have written that portion in a better way. I don't know whether the author was actually confused about her love towards her father due to the grief associated with her father's death or whether the central idea was lost in translation. I agree with you, she’s an impressive writer and I understand the fuss around her. She’s good and I’ll explore her work further. Tuttavia manca una riflessione generale (inusuale rispetto a romanzi come Memoria di ragazza o L'evento), e forse il lettore ne avrebbe avuto bisogno anche in quest'opera. Un tentativo almeno, anche se inconcludente, di interpretare il rapporto con il padre in qualche maniera, di unire i punti per capire le tracce che il passaggio attraverso il mondo di questa persona ha lasciato e l'influenza su chi ci è rimasto. Beautiful review, Emma! Was looking forward to your review 😊 I loved A Man’s Place. It is sad that they changed the title in English and didn’t retain the original French title. It was amazing to read about Ernaux’ father and how hard his childhood was. I loved what you said about how moving across social classes is like migrating to a new country. What you’ve said is very true. Thanks for sharing your thoughts 😊

He would be honored by her book about him, I think, but also he'd make fun of her seriousness, including some of the (very few) observations of an educated daughter, though she is careful to honor him though her use of language. She uses words to create a man, her father, though they are not quite his words. They are a daughter's loving, respectful words.

Some people relishes “the picturesque of patois” and of vernacular language. Like Proust, who raved about Françoise’s mistakes and old words. Only the aesthetics matters because Françoise is his servant and not his mother. Because himself has never felt these turns of phrase spontaneously come to his lips. Un romanzo che segue la vita di un padre, il padre della narratrice, un operaio diventato commerciante, iniziando dalla sua scomparsa e andando a ritroso, per poi ricongiungersi, di nuovo, con l'inizio. Annie Ernaux: l'ecriture du "don reverse", par Philippe Vilain, LittéRéalité, Vol 10, No 2, 1998, Université York DOI 10.25071/0843-4182.28137 p 61 - 72 (sur Passion simple, La Place, Une femme) L’événement , La femme gelée[Spectacle] / miseenscènede JeanneChampagne ;textd’AnnieErnaux. –Paris :Théâtre duChaudron, 2002-09-27 I take it as non-fiction too but doing that, I read it with the assumption that she aimed at accuracy and didn’t invent anything that’s written.Arribert-Narce, Fabien, Photobiographies: pouruneécriturede notation de la vie( Roland Barthes, Denis Roche, AnnieErnaux). –Paris :Honoré ChampionÉditeur, 2014 Un relato bastante corto el cual está destinado básicamente a recordar al padre de la autora, Annie Ernaux (1940), mediante un texto autobiográfico. Destacan algunos detalles que hablan un poco sobre la sensibilidad herida de Annie ante actos involuntarios de su padre por ser él una persona rústica con modales poco refinados y ella a pesar de sus orígenes pudo acceder a un mundo burgués y cultivado. I finished this novel in August but I was very very busy and had no time to write a proper review. Now, I feel it is too late so I will only say a few words. Erno portretiše oca višedimenzionalno, na nemalom broju stranica, a u velikom vremenskom rasponu. Neraspričano, otmeno i tako da ispovest prevazilazi samu sebe, postajući promišljanje o pronalaženju svog mesta na ovom svetu. A jedino izvesno mesto je, zapravo, ono koje nije na ovom svetu, ono koje dolazi nakon života.