Look at the lights, my love / Annie Ernaux ; translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ernaux, Annie, 1940- author.

Contributor:

Strayer, Alison L., translator.

Series:

Margellos world republic of letters book

A Margellos world republic of letters book

Standardized Title:

Regarde les lumières, mon amour French.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France.

Ernaux, Annie, 1940---Diaries.

Groupe Auchan.

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

Authors, French--21st century--Diaries.

Hypermarkets--France--Cergy.

Shopping--France--Cergy.

Hypermarkets.

French literature--Translations into English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Diaries.

Physical Description:

81 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"For half a century, the French writer Annie Ernaux has transgressed the boundaries of what stories are considered worth telling, what subjects worth exploring. In this probing meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a ubiquitous feature of modern life that has received scant attention in literature. Recording her visits to a store near Paris for over a year, she captures the world that exists within its massive walls. Through Ernaux's eyes, the superstore emerges as "a great human meeting place, a spectacle"--a flashy, technologically advanced incarnation of the ancient marketplace where capitalism, cultural production, and class converge, dictating our rhythms of desire. With her relentless powers of observation, Ernaux takes the measure of a place we thought we knew, calling us to question the experiences we overlook and to gaze more deeply into ordinary life."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Originally published in France as 'Regarde les lumières, mon amour' by ̀̀Editions du Seuil 2014.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780300268218

0300268211

OCLC:

1347696325