This narrative charts Annie 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, a mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment and 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 contains 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.
Les armoires vides
Annie Ernaux
audiobookPassion simple
Annie Ernaux
audiobookUne femme
Annie Ernaux
audiobookMémoire de fille
Annie Ernaux
audiobookL'autre fille : Suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
Annie Ernaux
audiobookWriting, the Other Life
Annie Ernaux
audiobookDen andra dottern
Annie Ernaux
bookNuori mies
Annie Ernaux
audiobookbookTapaus
Annie Ernaux
audiobookbookDiario del afuera
Annie Ernaux
bookThe Use of Photography
Annie Ernaux
bookThe Years (NHB Modern Plays)
Annie Ernaux
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