Bøker av Annie Ernaux

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attache to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate and unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living in the suburbs of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters. She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives merely to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the moment of desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death.Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer,Getting Lostis a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair.

A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent. Haunting and devastatingly poignant, I Remain in Darkness showcases Ernaux's unique talent for evoking life's darkest and most bewildering episodes.

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment. Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive.

Introducing 'The Years', a captivating book penned by the renowned author, Annie Ernaux. Published recently on October 1, 2022, this masterpiece is a must-have for every avid reader. The book is a spectacular exploration of the genre it belongs to, engaging its readers with its unique narrative and style. The story unfolds with an intriguing plot that keeps you hooked till the very end. Authored by Annie Ernaux, a name synonymous with quality literature, the book is a testament to her storytelling prowess. 'The Years' is a product of her creative genius and her ability to weave words into a mesmerizing tale. The book was published in 2022, reflecting the contemporary themes and ideas of our time. It is brought to you by Faber And Faber Ltd., a publisher known for their commitment to bringing quality literature to readers worldwide. The book is available in English, making it accessible to a global audience. Don't miss out on this literary gem from Annie Ernaux, get your copy of 'The Years' today!

In A GIRL'S STORY, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, her first away from home, and recounts the first night she spent with a man.

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame.

A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. While each of Ernaux's books contain an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, one of Ernaux's early works, concentrates the spotlight piercingly on Annie herself. Mixing affection, rage and bitterness, A Frozen Woman shows us Ernaux's developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the shortened form emerged that has since become her trademark.

Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation in A MAN'S PLACE reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life.

Annie 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. Ernaux's thought-provoking observations map the world's fleeting and lasting impressions on the shape of inner life.

Et av Ernaux' hovedverk endelig på norsk. «Far prøvde å drepe mor en søndag i juni, tidlig på ettermiddagen.» Annie Ernaux er tolv år gammel, og denne opplevelsen er med på å forme henne som menneske. Minnet om dette øyeblikket, da skammen får plass i bevisstheten og kroppen hennes, blir med henne resten av livet. I denne boken utforsker Annie Ernaux med stor kraft og innsikt hvor dype spor voldsomme minner kan sette. Med et skarpt og analytisk blikk ser hun på sin egen ungdomstid, da hun for alvor innså hvor knyttet skam er til klassetilhørighet, kjønn og familiebakgrunn - temaer som preger hele hennes forfatterskap. Annie Ernaux er vår tids viktigste franske forfatter, og de seneste årene har hun hatt et enormt gjennombrudd i Norge og internasjonalt. I 2022 ble hun tildelt Nobelprisen i litteratur.

La Place looks at a daughter's relationship with her father. In a fragmented and retrospective way the narrator describes her feelings of separation and betrayal that arise when education and marriage place her in a social class with different values, language, tastes and behaviour. She explores the ways in which individual experience is related to class and group attitudes and at the same time tells us a great deal about French society in general since the turn of the century. It is a concentrated text, cut through with irony and may be read in different ways. La Place will be an accessible and exciting addition to French studies courses.

Published in book form for the first time, Annie Ernaux's Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm in December 2022, translated by Alison L. Strayer.

In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior - an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the 'scandalous girl' of her youth. At once stark and tender, The Young Man is a taut encapsulation of Ernaux's relationship to time, memory and writing.

A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux

"Taking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive"--

I Sommeren 58 dykker Annie Ernaux ned i minnene fra sin første natt med en mann - en natt som ikke betydde stort for ham, men som betydde alt for henne. Denne første seksuelle erfaringen satte seg som et voldsomt sjokk i kroppen hennes og ble på mange måter kilden til hele hennes skrivende liv. Med utgangspunkt i fotografier, minner og brev forsøker Ernaux å skrive fram den unge kvinnen hun var. Seksti år senere kjenner hun fremdeles skammen, selvforakten og sviket på kroppen. Men med et helt liv som skrivende kvinne bak seg kan hun se erfaringen i et nytt og kanskje forsonende lys.

Annie Ernaux regnes som en av Frankrikes aller største forfattere - prisbelønt, bredt lest og høyt verdsatt. I Årene forteller hun om en kvinnes liv og om Frankrike i perioden 1941 til 2006. Hun reflekterer over kvinnens erfaringer som mor, datter, hustru og ikke minst som skrivende. Samtidig tar hun oss med på innsiden av de store samfunnsendringene, fra klassekamp og kjønnskamp til studentopprør og forbrukskultur. Fotografier og minner danner utgangspunkt for teksten, der forfatterens egen stemme nærmest slynger seg inn og ut av leserens bevissthet. Men teksten fortelles fra et kollektivt ståsted, fra et «vi» som inkluderer leseren. Slik blir selve tiden en fortellerstemme i boka. Med Årene skaper Ernaux en helt ny form for selvbiografisk tekst, en «kollektiv selvbiografi», som er både subjektiv og upersonlig, privat og felles. Årene fra 2008 ble Annie Ernaux' internasjonale gjennombrudd, og boken ble kortlistet til den internasjonale Man Booker-prisen i 2019. Den regnes allerede som en moderne klassiker.

Annie Ernaux om sine foreldre og sin egen bakgrunn Annie Ernaux' far døde to måneder etter at hun var ferdig utdannet som lærer - en utdannelse han hadde slitt for at hun skulle kunne få ta. Far er et portrett av denne faren, en uutdannet, hardtarbeidende, taus mann som hele livet bar med seg en skam over sin egen fattige bakgrunn. En kvinne handler om en sterk, arbeidsom og målrettet kvinne: Annie Ernaux' mor. Også hun hadde bakgrunn fra arbeiderklassen, og det viktigste for henne var at datteren skulle få tilgang på alt hun selv ikke hadde. Da Ernaux' mor får alzheimer, forsøker Ernaux å skrive fram og fange den kvinnen moren en gang var. Med stilsikker penn og stor følsomhet skildrer Annie Ernaux de ambivalente følelsene som kjennetegner forholdet mellom foreldre og barn: kjærligheten og forakten, nærheten og avstanden. Presist og sårt viser hun hvordan foreldrenes klassekamp ikke bare førte til at datteren kom seg fram i verden, men også hvordan de dermed mistet hverandre.