The years / Annie Ernaux ; translated by Alison L. Strayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ernaux, Annie, 1940- author.

Contributor:

Strayer, Alison L., translator.

Standardized Title:

Années. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Ernaux, Annie, 1940-.

Ernaux, Annie.

Authors, French--20th century--Biography.

Authors, French.

French literature--Translations into English.

French literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

237 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2017]

Language Note:

First published in French as Les Années (Paris : Gallimard, c2008).

Summary:

"Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. 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, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for theever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators toanonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective. On its 2008 publication in France, The Years came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winningauthor, The Years was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir "written" by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. Like the generation before hers, the narrator eschews the "I" for the "we" (or "they", or "one") as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents' generation ceased to exist. She writes of her parents' generation (and could be writing of her own book): "From a common fund of hunger and fear, everythingwas told in the "we" and impersonal pronouns.""-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Nobel Prize in literature, 2022.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.

Other Format:

Online version: Ernaux, Annie, 1940- Years.

ISBN:

9781609807870

1609807871

OCLC:

973084873