Bücher von Annie Ernaux

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attache to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate and unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living in the suburbs of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters. She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives merely to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the moment of desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death.Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer,Getting Lostis a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair.

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment. Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive.

A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent. Haunting and devastatingly poignant, I Remain in Darkness showcases Ernaux's unique talent for evoking life's darkest and most bewildering episodes.

Introducing 'The Years', a captivating book penned by the renowned author, Annie Ernaux. Published recently on October 1, 2022, this masterpiece is a must-have for every avid reader. The book is a spectacular exploration of the genre it belongs to, engaging its readers with its unique narrative and style. The story unfolds with an intriguing plot that keeps you hooked till the very end. Authored by Annie Ernaux, a name synonymous with quality literature, the book is a testament to her storytelling prowess. 'The Years' is a product of her creative genius and her ability to weave words into a mesmerizing tale. The book was published in 2022, reflecting the contemporary themes and ideas of our time. It is brought to you by Faber And Faber Ltd., a publisher known for their commitment to bringing quality literature to readers worldwide. The book is available in English, making it accessible to a global audience. Don't miss out on this literary gem from Annie Ernaux, get your copy of 'The Years' today!

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame.

A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. While each of Ernaux's books contain an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, one of Ernaux's early works, concentrates the spotlight piercingly on Annie herself. Mixing affection, rage and bitterness, A Frozen Woman shows us Ernaux's developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the shortened form emerged that has since become her trademark.

Annie Ernaux erzählt von einer alles verzehrenden Leidenschaft für einen irritierend teilnahmslosen Mann - unerschrocken gründlich sucht sie nach der Wahrheit hinter einer Existenz, in der sie sich zusehends aufzugeben droht. Das körperliche Leiden, die Angst des Wartens, die immer nur kurze Erleichterung des Liebemachens, die darauffolgende Lethargie und Müdigkeit, das erneute Verlangen, die kleinen Demütigungen und Erniedrigungen der Besessenheit und des Verlassenseins - mit ruhiger Selbstverständlichkeit berichtet Annie Ernaux von einer schmerzlich langen Episode ihres Lebens; wie sie sich immer heftiger in eine Affäre verstrickt, einem verheirateten osteuropäischen Geschäftsmann verfallen, der eine vage Ähnlichkeit mit Alain Delon hat, schnelle Autos und Alkohol mag und im Französischen keine »obszönen Ausdrücke kennt, oder er hatte einfach keine Lust, sie zu benutzen«. Annie Ernaux beschreibt einen zweijährigen Schwebezustand, worin jedes Wort, jedes Ereignis und jede andere Person entweder eine dringliche Verbindung zu diesem Mann hat oder aber von ihr mit kalter Gleichgültigkeit beschieden wird. Zu einem Mann, der ihr fremder nicht sein könnte.

An einem Sonntag im Jahr 1961 sitzt die zwanzigjährige Literaturstudentin Denise Lesur in ihrem Zimmer und wartet - dass ihr Körper die Abtreibung vollzieht, die eine Engelmacherin im Verborgenen eingeleitet hat. Der gebildete, bourgeoise, selbstgewisse Marc hat Denise auf die Nachricht der Schwangerschaft hin direkt verlassen. Und das Milieu, das er verkörpert, hätte sich auch nie ganz in ihrem Körper beheimaten können. Während sie also wartet, denkt sie über ihre Kindheit und Jugend nach: Zerrissen zwischen dem Elternhaus - obgleich stolze Épicerie-Besitzer sind ihre Eltern den bescheidenen, ländlichen Verhältnissen der Herkunft nie wirklich entronnen - und den Mitschülerinnen jener besseren Schulen, auf die ihre guten Leistungen sie befördert hatten, fühlt sich Denise von beiden Seiten stets abgestoßen. Vulgär und wütend, voller Ablehnung gegen die bürgerlichen Angepasstheiten - Annie Ernaux umkreist in Die leeren Schränke ein frühes einschneidendes Ereignis, das ihr gesamtes Leben prägen wird. Und erfindet dafür eine völlig neuartige, aufwühlende literarische Form.

Les années. Obrazy sostavljajut nashu zhizn'. Real'nye, voobrazhaemye, mimoletnye, te, chto navsegda zapechatlevajutsja v pamjati. I poka zhivy obrazy, zhiva istorija, zhivy ljudi, zhiv kazhdyj otel'nyj chelovek. Roman "Gody" - slovno fotoal'bom, galereja vospominanij, voroh obrazov, slov, voprosov, myslej. Anni Jerno sumela voplotit' ne tol'ko pamjat' lichnosti, no i kollektivnuju pamjat' celoj jepohi v svoej besprecedentnoj po forme i stilju proze. I stranicy, propitannye nezhnym chuvstvom nostal'gii, smogut vskolyhnut' jeti obrazy v vashem soznanii, uvekovechiv vospominanija navsegda.

In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior - an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the 'scandalous girl' of her youth. At once stark and tender, The Young Man is a taut encapsulation of Ernaux's relationship to time, memory and writing.

Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time - together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. A dazzling and breathtaking work.

"Taking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive"--