A meditation on the big-box superstore, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux &nbsp; For half a century, French writer Annie Ernaux has restlessly explored stories and subjects often considered unworthy of artistic reflection. In this exquisite meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a ubiquitous feature of modern life that has received scant attention in literature. &nbsp; Recording her visits to a single superstore in Paris for over a year, Ernaux captures the world that exists within its massive walls. Culture, class, and capitalism converge, reinscribing the individual's role and rank within society while absorbing individuality into the machine of mass consumerism. Through Ernaux's eyes, the superstore emerges as a "great human meeting place, a spectacle," a space where we come into direct contact with difference. She notes the unexpectedly intimate encounters between customers; how our collective desires are dictated by the daily, seasonal, and annual rhythms of the marketplace; and the ways that the built environment reveals the contours of gender and race in contemporary society. &nbsp; With her relentless powers of observation, Annie Ernaux takes the measure of a place we thought we knew, calling us to question the experiences we overlook and to gaze more deeply into ordinary life.

Look at the Lights, My Love (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Biographies & Memoirs

ERNAUX, Annie

Arts & Literature

Yale University Press

A Woman's Story

"A stunning, emotional testament...that may move some readers to think of their own mothrs, even in a way they hadn't before." Annie Ernaux's mother has just died. She is the only child, so it is up to her to make the final arrangements. And it is up to her to remember the proud, vibrant, intense, and difficult woman who once was her mother before age and illness vanquished her. A poignant recollection of a mother's life in France before and after the war, this woman's story can only be known in part. Yet, in this case, that is enough. An acclaimed bestseller in France, A WOMAN'S STORY is every women's story--a quiet jewel of a memoir, breathtaking and brilliant. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

Ballantine Books

The author of A Woman's Story portrays a daughter coming to terms with her formative years as she writes an unflinching portrait of her father, a cafe owner whose life had become very alien to her.

A Man's Place

"A work of lyrical precision and diamond-hard clarity....A remembrance of desire past." THE NEW YORKER Memoirist Annie Ernaux has written eloquently about loss. Now she writes of another kind of loss, the loss of herself in a love and then the loss of the love itself. In spare, beautiful language, she writes of the end of an affair, the coming to terms with its close and with the person she has become because of it.

Simple Passion

A fragmented and largely retrospective description of a daughter's relationship with her father, La Place deals with issues of sexuality, social standing and alienation. This is an accessible and exciting addition to French studies courses.

La Place (Twentieth Century Texts) (French Edition)

Reference

Routledge

On her mother's death, Annie Ernaux travels back in time to reunite Mother and Daughter - writing both movingly and quixotically 'to capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris'. In this powerful and poignant tribute - reissued a quarter of a century after Quartet Books first published the book in English - Ernaux writes: 'I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world.'

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Quartet Books Ltd.

Things Seen (French Voices)

“Annie Ernaux’s work,” wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, “represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory.” In the New York Times Book Review, Kathryn Harrison concurred: “Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse.” In this “journal” Ernaux turns her penetrating focus on those points in life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where “things seen” reflect a private life meeting the larger world. From the war crimes tribunal in Bosnia to social issues such as poverty and AIDS; from the state of Iraq to the world’s contrasting reactions to Princess Diana’s death and the starkly brutal political murders that occurred at the same time; from a tear-gas attack on the subway to minute interactions with a clerk in a store: Ernaux’s thought-provoking observations map the world’s fleeting and lasting impressions on the shape of inner life.

Essays & Correspondence

University Of Nebraska Press

Bison Books

Cleaned Out tells the story of Denise Lesur, a 20-year-old woman suffering the after-effects of a back-alley abortion. Alone in her college dorm room, Denise attempts to understand how her suffocating middle-class upbringing has brought her to such an awful present. Ernaux, one of France's most important contemporary writers, daringly breaks with formal French literary tradition in this moving novel about abortion, growing up, and coming to terms with one's childhood.

Cleaned Out

Contemporary

Dalkey Archive Press

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Look at the Lights, My Love (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

A Woman's Story

A Man's Place

Simple Passion

La Place (Twentieth Century Texts) (French Edition)

A Woman's Story

Things Seen (French Voices)

Things Seen (French Voices)

Cleaned Out

Cleaned Out