The full French text is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

La Place Pb

Literature & Fiction

Annie Ernaux

Essays & Correspondence

Routledge

"A stunning, emotional testament...that may move some readers to think of their own mothrs, even in a way they hadn't before." Annie Ernaux's mother has just died. She is the only child, so it is up to her to make the final arrangements. And it is up to her to remember the proud, vibrant, intense, and difficult woman who once was her mother before age and illness vanquished her. A poignant recollection of a mother's life in France before and after the war, this woman's story can only be known in part. Yet, in this case, that is enough. An acclaimed bestseller in France, A WOMAN'S STORY is every women's story--a quiet jewel of a memoir, breathtaking and brilliant. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

Womans Story

Interlink Publishing+group Inc

Positions

Contemporary

Quartet Books Ltd.

The French title for this imagined (projected) memoir is "Passion Simple", though it seems inadequate for this explorative feminist text.

Passion Perfect

Literary

Quartet Books

Les Armoires Vides

French & European Publications, Inc.

A fragmented and largely retrospective description of a daughter's relationship with her father, "La Place" deals with issues of sexuality, social sta nding and alienation. This will be an accessible and exciting addition to French studies courses.

Place [FRE-PLACE] [French Edition] [Paperback]

Gallimard Education

LaFemme Gelee

Un jeune seigneur rural vit une histoire d'amour passionnée avec une femme, mariée à un vieux comte... Ce roman, au dénouement un peu tragique, est parfois considéré comme étant l'un des romans les plus réussis de l'auteur, même s'il n' a eu qu'un mince succès public.

Une Femme (French Edition)

Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France. Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires. A Man's Place is the companion book to her critically acclaimed memoir about her mother, A Woman's Story.

A Man's Place

Classics

Four Walls, Eight Windows

Washington Post Top Memoir of 1999An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter’s attachment to her mother, and of both women’s strength and resiliency. "I Remain in Darkness" recounts Annie’s attempts first 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. "I Remain in Darkness" is a new high water mark for Ernaux, surging with raw emotional power and her sublime ability to use language to apprehend her own life’s particular music.

I Remain in Darkness

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Seven Stories Press

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