Writing Shame and Desire: The Work of Annie Ernaux by Loraine Day

Writing Shame and Desire: The Work of Annie Ernaux

Modern French Identities

Loraine Day

315 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary reflective medium-paced
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The mature narrator of Annie Ernaux's La Honte (1997) identifies her father's assault on her mother, in June 1952, as the founding event in her awareness of self and social place, a bedrock memory that represents the one remaining link between the...

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