EAN: 9781910695784

THE YEARS - ANNIE ERNAUX KARTONIERT (TB)

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirists defining work  The Years is a narrative
of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory  impressions past and present 
photos  books  songs  radio  television  advertising  and news headlines. Local dialect  words
of the times  slogans  brands and names for ever-proliferating objects are given voice here.
The voice we recognize as the authors continually dissolves and re-emerges as Annie Ernaux
makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself  inexorable  narrates its own course 
consigning all other narrators to anonymity. 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-winning author  this 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 (on in French) as if collective
life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents generation ceased to
exist. In inventing a new genre the collective autobiography Annie Ernaux has written a genuine
masterpiece which cements her place as one of our greatest memoirists.

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