Simple Passion

Simple Passion
Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
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Paperback
Not defined - 80pg
10 Mar 2021 UK
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9781913097554
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In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux' s SIMPLE PASSION documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the pieces of its aftermath, she is able to find it. ' A work of lyrical precision and diamond-hard clarity. ' - THE NEW YORKER
' All this - the suffering and anxiety of waiting, the brief soulagement of lovemaking, the lethargy and fatigue that follow, the renewal of desire, the little indignities and abjections of both obsession and abandonment - Ernaux tells with calm, almost tranquillized matter-of-factness [that] feels like determination, truth to self, clarity of purpose. ' -THE WASHINGTON POST
Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d' Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A MAN' S PLACE and A WOMAN' S STORY, have become contemporary classics in France. THE YEARS won the Prix Renaudot in France in 2008, the Premio Strega in Italy in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. In 2017, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her life' s work.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781913097554
Published: 10 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80

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