A Girl's Story
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U Lužického semináře 10, Malá Strana
Berlín-Friedrichshain, dodací doba +7 dní
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Fitzcarraldo Editions
UK
2020
Paperback
152
Standard
309894
978-1-913097-15-8
1-913097-15-3
Literary essays
Annotation
In A Girl's Story, her latest book, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, spent working as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy, and recounts the first night she spent with a man. When he moves on, she realizes she has submitted her will to his and finds that she is a slave without a master. Now, sixty years later, she finds she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman whom she wanted to forget completely. In writing A Girl's Story, which brings to life her indelible memories of that summer, Ernaux discovers that here was the vital, violent and dolorous origin of her writing life, built out of shame, violence and betrayal.
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