Gli Anni by Annie Ernaux
A spare, panoramic memoir that reconstructs a life by stitching together personal memories, family scenes, advertisements, photographs and major public events across decades, using an impersonal collective voice to map how private experience and social history shape one another; the result is a cool, elegiac meditation on the passage of time, the formation of identity (especially a woman’s), social class and collective memory, where intimate detail and historical landmarks become a portrait of a society and of the self as it dissolves and endures.
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- Published
- 2008
- Nationality
- French
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- Pages
- 320-336
- Original Language
- French
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- Les Années
- The Years
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