Description: Years, Paperback by Ernaux, Annie; Strayer, Alison L. (TRN), ISBN 1609807871, ISBN-13 9781609807870, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present -- even projections into the future -- photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for the ever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators toanonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective. On its 2008 publication in France, The Years came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, The Years was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir "written" by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. Like the generation before hers, the narrator eschews the "I" for the "we" (or "they", or "one") as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents' generation ceased to exist. She writes of her parents' generation (and could be writing of her own book): "From a common fund of hunger and fear, everything was told in the "we" and impersonal pronouns.""--
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Book Title: Years
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Topic: Women Authors, Europe / France, Personal Memoirs, Social History, Literary
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
Item Length: 8.1 in
Author: Annie Ernaux
Item Width: 5.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
