Posted by Annie Ernaux on Thursday in France The young man, another episode of his autobiographical enterprise that began half a century ago. The book will be released in Quebec on June 6.
The famous writer also stars in the film The super-8 years, in which he commented on films in the 1970s taken from his personal archives. This one -hour feature film will be screened at the Directors ’Fortnight of the next Cannes Film Festival.
A passion
The young man is a short story written in the late 1990s, continued in 2022, narrating Annie Ernaux’s relationship with a student, about 30 years younger than her.
This passion awakened the memories that led to one of the author’s important novels.
We do not know what this man has been called MAY.. I don’t want us to start following himsaid Annie Ernaux monthly Read.
In each of his books since then years in 2008, critics expressed their admiration for this writer. Not Always the Case: His Novel easily inclined Came under intense criticism in 1992.
At this time every day Le Figaro salute the rhythm of the Ernausian short form, its density, the result of long work, the hammering of reality reading. For the magazine The Obs, it achieves impressive highlighting, with simplicity and density of evidence, the essential aspects of an experience.
Let’s say explicitly, a pleasure, a candy, a nod to lifeaccording to The Express.
The novelist said he still has at least one important stage of his life to say. It’s hardly a secret. Let’s just say this is a secret that worries many women […] I’m trying now to get it in shapehe said, without explaining.
Unpublished texts
At the time of writing this latest novel, Annie Ernaux also worked on the magazine issue Herne’s Notebooks dedicated to him. Published on Wednesday, it is dotted with approximately twenty unpublished texts of the author.
In an excerpt of the diary from the summer of 1968, then a high school teacher, he wrote, for example: In passing, alive, my eyes were closed to the awfulness of my surroundings that I was able to get away with […] I don’t know what I want.
Now, the man who supports the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the leftist party La France Insoumise, knows what he doesn’t want: honors that he thinks are excessive. In the field of literature, I feel a bit illegitimate, yes. I do not know whyhe says on the set of France 5.
Source: Radio-Canada
