La Honte by Annie Ernaux
After witnessing her father attempt to kill her mother in June 1952, a girl’s world fractures and becomes organized around an all-pervading sense of shame. As an adult, she revisits the provincial, Catholic, working-class milieu of her youth to examine how class hierarchies, religious discipline, and gender norms entangle with private violence to shape behavior and self-perception. Through a restrained, quasi-sociological reexamination of places, language, and rituals, she traces how that single episode remade memory, desire, and identity.
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- 1997
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- Alternate Titles
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