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The Years

By Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer

The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into the future—photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from 6 decades of diaries.

Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for the ever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author’s continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective.
Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

Year: 2017

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Categories: Historical France Biographies, Women in History, and Memoirs

Pages: 240

Barcode: 9781609807870
Availability: In stock
Product type: Memoir
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