Simple Passion: Annie Ernaux

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Arguably the queen of the autofiction avant garde, Cusk found herself an entirely new kind of protagonist for her Outline trilogy, which she began in 2014. Possibly bruised by the critical mugging meted out to Aftermath, her intense and exposing memoir of the breakdown of her marriage and, in a marked departure from her earlier, stylised novels, she opted to feature a virtually invisible narrator. Faye, a teacher of creative writing, like Cusk, is effaced, hidden and virtually silent on the subject of herself. Yet as she travels to Athens, in Outline, then wanders through London, in Transit, and negotiates the hot streets of an unnamed European city in the final volume, Kudos, we come to know her and the times she is living in through the stories she relays about others. Passion Simple, adaption du romanéponymed’AnnieErnaux, avec LaetitiaDoschet SergueïPolounine. Director: DanielleArbid. Screenplay: DanielleArbid. 2020

L’événement. Director: Audrey Diwan. Screenplay by Marcia Romano and Audrey Diwan. Based on the novel by AnnieErnaux. 2021 In 1988, the award-winning French writer Annie Ernaux went on a junket to Soviet Russia. On the last day of the tour, in Leningrad, she began an affair with a married Russian diplomat from the Soviet embassy in France. He was 35; she was 48. When they returned to Paris they kept it up. Getting Lost (now published in translation) is the unaltered, original journal that Ernaux wrote during their 18 months together. LeQuat’sous[Spectacle] / miseenscènede LaurenceCordier ;d’après”Une femme”, ”Lahonte” et ”Les armoires vides”,d’AnnieErnaux. –Bordeaux :Théâtre national Bordeaux Aquitaine, 2016-11-08 Following the announcement of the award of the Nobel Prize, Ernaux showed solidarity with people's uprising in Iran against their government. The protests that followed the death of a young woman in the custody of Guidance Patrol (Morality Police) initially started against compulsory hijab law in Iran but soon took a broader focus on liberty. Ernaux said in an interview she was "absolutely in favour of women revolting against this absolute constraint". [38] [39] Personal life [ edit ] La Cergyssoise Annie Ernaux décroche le prix Nobel de littérature". actu.fr. 6 October 2022. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022.

Simple Passion/ translated by Tanya Leslie. – NewYork :Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993. – Translation of: Passion simple

Chakraborty wrote: “The quality that distinguishes Ernaux’s writing on sex from others in her milieu is the total absence of shame. Desire in her brings forth more desire, the impulse of death, happiness, and even past trauma, like her abortion, but never humiliation. Reading her is to thoroughly purge yourself of the notion that shame could be a possible outcome of wanting sex.”No doubt, one gets used to such a sight; the first time is shattering. Centuries and centuries, hundreds of generations have gone by, and it is only now one can see this … It occurred to me that writing should also aim for that.” Bernstein, Richard (28 November 1999). " 'Darkness' a look at final illness". Tallahassee Democrat. p.2D. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022– via Newspapers.com.

There is something powerfully subversive about Ernaux’s determined attention to the intimate, the messy and vulnerable, the stories regarded as private and shameful which—through the act of writing—become fully lived, deliberately realized, and even liberating. Ernaux turns the truth of her experiences into words that might allow her to overcome the tradition and tyranny of silence, to feel embodied so she may not be erased. It is here, inside the book, that the author has permission to lose herself and not be wrong. But the story is not just a cathartic purge; it is a way of connecting—without constraint or morality or apologies for where one has been or what one has done—our isolated (and therefore insufficient) stories to other isolated (and therefore insufficient) stories. This book is, in Ernaux’s own words, “an offering of a sort, bequeathed to others.” L’événement , La femme gelée[Spectacle] / miseenscènede JeanneChampagne ;textd’AnnieErnaux. –Paris :Théâtre duChaudron, 2002-09-27 AnnieErnaux:Un engagementd’écriture/ Pierre-Louis Fort etViolaineHoudart-Merot(éds.). –Paris :Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2015 AnnieErnaux[Imagesanimées] / Timothy Miller,réal. ;BenoitCanu, comp. ; AnnieErnaux,participante. – laCinquième;Paris : MK2 TV, 2000L'Événement (2021), released in English as Happening and directed by Audrey Diwan, received the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. [49]

Though she taught literature at secondary school from 1974, Ernaux has never taught creative writing and claims to be baffled by the fashionable US export of writing-workshop culture. It’s a stance perhaps in conflict with her otherwise strong public posture of sharing and open-source creation (Ernaux doesn’t believe she “owns” her texts and views her Nobel win as a collective effort). “I suppose these workshops help people not to make obvious faux pas,” she says now. “And, of course, there are writers who really need to know whether something’s good or not . But at the end of the day it’s only you who knows…” Jellenik, Cathy, Rewritingrewriting:MargueriteDuras, AnnieErnaux, and MarieRedonnet. –Bern :Peter Lang, 2007 Chevrette, Éric, Vigiles demémoire:esth/éthiquedumaldiciblechez Modiano,Ernaux, LeClézio. –Montréal :Presses del’Universitéde Montréal, 2020 a b c Joffre, Tzvi (6 October 2022). "New Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux's repeatedly supported BDS". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 8 October 2022.Ankita Chakraborty in the Guardian said Ernaux’s Getting Lost, a book recording her obsessive affair with a Russian diplomat, would “become a kind of totem for lovers: a manual to help them find their centre when, like Ernaux, they are lost in love”. a b c Bushby, Helen (6 October 2022). "Annie Ernaux: French writer wins Nobel Prize in Literature". BBC News. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 6 October 2022. A Frozen Woman/ translated by Linda Coverdale. – NewYork :Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995. – Translation of: La femme gelée Ernaux escribe esta obra como consecuencia de los efectos provocados por una fuerte pasión (de ahí el título), generada por su relación con un hombre casado, de la que siempre tu In the press release accompanying the Nobel announcement, it was said that Ernaux had been awarded the prize “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. Yet clinical feels too chilly a word to describe Ernaux’s lifelong effort to include the marginalised and forgotten within the lofty corridors of literature. “I have never spoken of cold things,” she affirms.