'I will write to avenge my people.'It was as a youngwoman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in herdiary,giving a name to her purpose in life as a writer.She returns to them in her stirring defence of literatureand of political writing in her Nobel Lecture,deliveredin Stockholm on 7 December 2022. To write of her ownlife,she asserts,is to'shatter the loneliness of experiencesendured and repressed'; to mine individual experience isto find collective emancipation. Ernaux's speech is a boldassertion of the capacity of writing to give people a senseof their own worth,and of one writer's commitment tobearing witness to life,its joys and its injustices.
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo EditionsISBN: 9781804270707Dimensions: 197 x 125 mm
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'Ernauxhas inherited de Beauvoir's role of chronicler to a generation.'- Margaret Drabble,New Statesman
'Her work attests to the ways in which an individual story is linked to shared histories and her documentation of personal oppression is part of a struggle for collective freedom.'-Jessica Andrews,Elle UK
Annie Ernaux
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2022,Annie Ernaux a critically acclaimed French memoirist and author,best known for her luminous Booker International Prize-shortlisted The Years.
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