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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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On its 2008 publication in France, \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir \"written\" by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. Like the generation before hers, the narrator eschews the \"I\" for the \"we\" (or \"they\", or \"one\") as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents' generation ceased to exist. She writes of her parents' generation (and could be writing of her own book): \"From a common fund of hunger and fear, everything was told in the \"we\" and impersonal pronouns.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCo-winner of the 2018 French-American Foundation Translation Prize in Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of work\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53552938877294,"sku":"9781609807870","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_bbecaabf-29b1-4922-901c-f13a5af8ad7c.jpg?v=1774577228"},{"product_id":"the-other-girl","title":"The Other Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnnie Ernaux's profound investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, who died at six, two years before Annie was born. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 1950, when Annie Ernaux is ten, she inadvertently learns she had a sister who died at six, two years before her own birth. Having believed she was an only child, she learns that she has replaced another daughter--\"the little saint,\" \"the absent one in every conversation,\" who lives on in Annie's parents' wordless grief. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking the form of a letter to the unknown sister, \u003ci\u003e The Other Girl\u003c\/i\u003e was published in French in 2011 as part of the Affranchis collection (published by les éditions du Nil), which invited writers to compose \"the letter they'd never written,\" inspired by Kafka's \u003ci\u003eLetter to His Father\u003c\/i\u003e. \"I had to come to terms with this mysterious inconsistency: you, the good girl, were not saved, but I, the demon, survived. More than survived, was miraculously saved. 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So. . . everyone?\"\u003cb\u003e--Jessie Gaynor, \u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Annie Ernaux has long foregrounded physical and emotional sensations as the building blocks of her autobiographical writing. However, it is in \u003ci\u003eThe Use of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e where the connection between the body and subjectivity most powerfully emerges.\"\u003cb\u003e--Lisa Connell in \u003ci\u003eFrench Forum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"These photos, in which the bodies are absent, and the eroticism is only represented by the abandoned clothes, were a reminder of my possible, permanent absence.\"\u003cb\u003e--Annie Ernaux\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnnie Ernaux and Marc Marie met in January 2003 and became lovers almost immediately. A short time later, he accompanied her to the Institut Curie, where she was having surgery for breast cancer. 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