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Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Author: Annie Ernaux
ISBN: 9781609807870
Memoir, Non Fiction
The Years
by
Annie Ernaux
The Years by
Annie Ernaux
Reviews
"The Years is a revolution, not only in the art of autobiography but in art itself. Annie Ernaux's book blends memories, dreams, facts and meditations into a unique evocation of the times in which we lived, and live."
John Banville
Summary
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.
