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I Will Write To Avenge My People

By Annie Ernaux

I Will Write To Avenge My People Essays & Short Stories

I Will Write To Avenge My People

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'I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diary, giving a name to her purpose in life as a writer. She returns to them in her stirring defence of literature and of political writing in her Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2022. To write of her own life, she asserts, is to 'shatter the loneliness of experiences endured and repressed'; to mine individual experience is to find collective emancipation. Ernaux's speech is a bold assertion of the capacity of writing to give people a sense of their own worth, and of one writer's commitment to bearing witness to life, its joys and its injustices.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
48
Release Date:
2023-07-04
Publication Date:
2023-07-04
Publisher:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1804270709
ISBN13:
9781804270707
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
89 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
196 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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