Happening – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE (eBook)

Annie Ernaux (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
80 Seiten
Fitzcarraldo Editions (Verlag)
978-1-910695-84-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.

Autor

Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d'Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man's Place and A Woman's Story, have become contemporary classics in France. Audrey Diwan's adaptation of Happening won the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival. In 2022, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.2.2019
• Übersetzer: Tanya Leslie
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Abortion • Annie Ernaux • Autobiography • Deborah Levy • Edouard Louis • Essay • France • French Literature • John Banville • Lauren Elkin • Literary criticism • Literature • Max Porter • Memoir • Nobel prize • nobel prize 2022 • Nobel Prize in literature • Nonfiction • Olivia Laing • Paris • personal memoir • Social commentary • translated literature • Translation
• ISBN-10: 1-910695-84-X / 191069584X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-910695-84-5 / 9781910695845