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A Girl's Story

By Annie Ernaux

A Girl's Story Essays & Short Stories

A Girl's Story

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'I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have never managed to do so.' In A Girl's Story, her latest book, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, spent working as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy, and recounts the first night she spent with a man. When he moves on, she realizes she has submitted her will to his and finds that she is a slave without a master. Now, sixty years later, she finds she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman whom she wanted to forget completely. In writing A Girl's Story, which brings to life her indelible memories of that summer, Ernaux discovers that here was the vital, violent and dolorous origin of her writing life, built out of shame, violence and betrayal.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
152
Release Date:
2020-04-07
Publication Date:
2020-04-07
Publisher:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1913097153
ISBN13:
9781913097158
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
204 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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