In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits a night fifty years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another personâs desire and willpower. It was the summer of 1958, the year she turned eighteen, and the man she had given herself to had moved on. Sheâd submitted her will to his and then found that she was a slave without a master. Now, fifty years later, she realizes she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider the young woman who, until now, she had wanted to forget completely. And, in the process, she also discovers that this was the vital, violent, and dolorous origin of her writing lifeâher writerâs identity, built out of shame, violence, and betrayal.
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Martin
2022-11-17
About the first love, shame and life as young.
Kristin
2022-10-10
Störande med fotnoter som lÀses in samtidigt som berÀttelsen lÀses, orkade inte lyssna klart Pga detta