The Years
Annie Ernaux • 2008
Devastation Rating
literary fiction loss philosophical historical
Our Take
Ernaux writes collective memory in the third person — 'we' and 'she', never 'I' — and the effect is autobiography as a form of archaeology. A woman's life embedded in the texture of French history, and the grief is for time, for the self that is always already past, for everything that gets lost in living.
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