Annie Ernaux

1 week ago | elpais.com | Álex Vicente |Annie Ernaux

En la obra de Annie Ernaux, la fotografía no es un mero objeto evocador, sino un detonante de la memoria. Es el punto de partida de la escritura, una herramienta para acceder a lo que el tiempo y las defensas de la mente han sepultado. La escritora francesa ha recurrido a ella en El lugar, La vergüenza, Una mujer o Los años, donde describía instantáneas de su infancia y juventud como si fueran fotos en prosa.

Jan 15, 2025 | fivebooks.com | Annie Ernaux |Alison L. Strayer |T. Kira Madden |Melissa Febos

Thank you for choosing these memoirs of girlhood: five female coming-of-age stories. Why do you find it such a compelling subject? I think we spend our lifetimes trying to make sense of it. These are our most formative years, the years when how we think—our very brain structure, according to neuroscience—is being shaped. During puberty, similarly to post-partum, our brains show radical changes. So, we live with the repercussions of our girlhoods.

Aug 26, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Jonathan Lethem |Annie Ernaux |Nancy Lemann

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by Sari Botton, now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “Becoming Becks” by .

Aug 19, 2024 | newyorker.com | Annie Ernaux

I saw M.’s sex for the first time on the night of January 22, 2003, in the entryway of my house, at the foot of the stairs leading up to the bedrooms. There is something extraordinary about the first sight of the other’s sex, the unveiling of what was hitherto unknown. So that is what we’re going to live with, live our love with. Or not. We’d had dinner together in a restaurant he knew well on Rue Servandoni, near the Jardin du Luxembourg.

Aug 2, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Dzifa Benson |Annie Ernaux

The Years cast Credit: Ali Wright Norwegian director Eline Arbo originally adapted Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s critically acclaimed book The Years for Het Nationale Theater in the Hague in 2022.