I leaned against the beauty of the world / And I held the smell of the seasons in my hands
Anna de Noailles, as quoted in Les Années (The Years) by Annie Ernaux
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And deep down, hidden away as indecent, the desire for a pleasure I've discovered on my own.
Annie Ernaux, excerpt from A Frozen Woman trans. by Linda Coverdale
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All my mother had done was try to love me while not loving herself
I remain in darkness, Annie Ernaux//Class of 2013, Mitski//Mother, Maia Baia//House of the Dragon (2022-)//Ella Wilson
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I experienced pleasure like a future pain.
Annie Ernaux, trans. by Tanya Leslie, from “Simple Passion”
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addicted to reading women explaining much better than me what i exactly feel about everything
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Les années Super 8 (Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot, 2022)
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Quello che conta non è ciò che succede, e ciò che si fa di quel che succede.
Annie Ernaux, da Memoria di ragazza
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1st November 2022
Hi, I know I haven’t been here in ages! But I wanted to come back and tell you guys I finally picked up Annie Ernaux. I have devoured this and am now desperate to read Simple Passion immediately. I talk a bit about it in my first newsletter that I will discuss more later. In the mean time - how is everyone? Who else loves Annie Ernaux?
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a woman's story by annie ernaux
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I feel I'm better off in hiding. Convinced that this attitude will carry me through, I protect myself from within, with a solid dark core of wickedness and desires.
Annie Ernaux, excerpt from A Frozen Woman trans. by Linda Coverdale
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Who could say that love, pain and mourning, shame, are not universal? Victor Hugo wrote: ‘Not one of us has the honour of living a life that is only his own.’ But as all things are lived inexorably in the individual mode – ‘it is to me this is happening’ – they can only be read in the same way if the ‘I’ of the book becomes transparent, in a sense, and the ‘I’ of the reader comes to occupy it. If this ‘I’, to put it another way, becomes transpersonal.
Annie Ernaux, from her Nobel Prize Lecture, translated by Alison L. Strayer
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September 28th, 2023 | My yearly September/back to uni cold is making a comeback. It doesn't help that it's 23°C outside and -10°C in my office...
Giving annotating with a colour key a try for my reading of Ernaux' Mémoire de fille.
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Now I was only time flowing through myself.
Annie Ernaux, trans. by Tanya Leslie, from “Simple Passion”
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