Books written by Annie Ernaux

Simple Passion

A woman plots the emotional and physical course of an all-consuming affair with a married man, during which she loses herself in her passion before the relationship comes to an end. By the author of A Woman's Story. Reprint.
The Years

The Years, by bestselling French author Annie Ernaux, is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present - even projections into the future - photos, books, songs, radio, ...
Happening

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 Man's Place

Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even ...
Happening

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.
The Possession

Self-regard, in the works of Annie Ernaux, is always an excruciatingly painful and exact process.
A Girl's Story

In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the season fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another’s will and desire.
Cleaned Out

Cleaned Out tells the story of Denise Lesur, a 20-year-old woman suffering the after-effects of a back-alley abortion.
The Years

The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into the future—photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, ...
A Frozen Woman

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 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 ...
嫉妒所未知的空白

嫉妒所未知的空白
El lugar

El lugar
La Place Pb

Chaque dimanche, manger quelque chose de bon. La même vie désormais, pour lui. Mais la certitude qu'on ne peut pas être plus heureux qu'on est. Ce dimanche-là, il avait fait la sieste. Il passe devant la lucarne du grenier.
Cannibale

Cannibale
La place

Erindringsroman om en kvindes opvækst i en fransk landsby frem til 1967, og om den afstand hun oplever til sin far, da hun som familiens første tager en akademisk uddannelse
Les années

Au dos : août 1949, Sotteville-sur-Mer." Au travers de photos et de souvenirs laissés par les événements, les mots et les choses, Annie Ernaux nous fait ressentir le passage des années, de l'après-guerre à aujourd'hui.
La Place

The full French text is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.
Passion Perfect

Passion Perfect
"I Remain in Darkness"

I Remain in Darkness is a new high water mark for Ernaux, surging with raw emotional power and her sublime ability to use language to apprehend her own life’s particular music. A Washington Post Top Memoir of 1999
一个女人的故事

一个女人的故事是安妮·埃尔诺对母亲和女儿,青春和衰老,梦想和现实的感人叙述.在母亲死于阿尔茨海默症后,作者开始了令人生畏的时光倒流之旅,她试图捕捉真正的女人,那个独立于女儿而存在的女人,那个出生在诺曼底小镇,死在巴黎郊区医院的老年病房里的女人.她探讨了母亲和女儿之间既脆弱又不可动摇的纽带,将她们分开的疏远的世界,以及我们必须失去我们所爱之人这一无法逃避的事实.在这部平静而有力的致敬作品中,埃尔诺想要为她的母亲争取最大的公平:将她描绘成她自己.正如作者所说:"现在我写我的母亲,就像该轮到我重新让母亲出生.".