Annie Ernaux

Eleetön ja hyytävän tarkkanäköinen kuvaus laittomasta abortista. Sen sijaan, että yrittäisi unohtaa traumaattisen kokemuksen, Ernaux katsoo suoraan sitä kohti ja pakottaa lukijankin näkemään tilanteen julmuuden: ei-toivottu raskaus tuhoaisi naisen mahdollisuudet edetä elämässä, abortti taas merkitsee rikoksentekijäksi ryhtymistä. Se on koettava salaa, yksin ja pahimmillaan kuolemanvaaralle altistuen. Pieni, väkevä teos kuvaa yksilön tarinan kautta suurta yhteiskunnallista ilmiötä.

NOBELPRISEN I LITTERATUR 2022”Jeg tilfører litteraturen noget hårdt, noget tyngende, noget voldeligt ligefrem, noget, der knytter sig til livsvilkårene og til sproget i den verden, der, indtil jeg fyldte atten, var den eneste verden, jeg kendte, en arbejder- og landbrugsverden. Altid noget virkelighedsnært. (...) Jeg føler, at skrivningen i mit tilfælde, i min situation som social afhopper, er det, jeg bedst kan bidrage med, som en politisk handling og som en 'gave'.”? Igennem et års tid korresponderede Annie Ernaux og litteraten Frédéric-Yves Jeannet om Ernaux’ forfatterskab. Det blev til en række refleksioner over en skriftlig praksis, der begyndte for mange år siden og bl.a. har udmøntet sig i romanerne Min far, Kvinden, Årene og Pigen fra ’58 – refleksioner over skriften som en kniv, eller et våben, der skærer?ind til tingenes kerne. Skriften som kniv tegner hermed et portræt af en forfatter med et stærkt socialt og politisk engagement, der allerede som barn var opslugt af at læse og gennem bøgerne blev klogere på verden uden for forældrenes købmandsbutik. RELIEF? er Etceteras nye serie for nonfiktion. Her udgiver vi både helt nye og lidt ældre tekster, der vækker til eftertanke og sætter den tid, vi lever i, i relief. Annie Ernaux (f. 1940) bliver betragtet som en af de vigtigste litterære stemmer i sit hjemland, Frankrig. Hendes mere end 20 romaner er alle blevet hyldet af både læsere og kritikere, og hun er en stor inspirationskilde for mange af Frankrigs unge forfattere. I disse år får Annie Ernaux desuden stor opmærksomhed i udlandet. I 2022 blev hun tildelt den mest prestigefyldte litteraturpris af dem alle, Nobelprisen i litteratur. Frédéric-Yves Jeannet (f. 1959) er forfatter og lektor i litteraturvidenskab. Han har franske rødder, men har de sidste mange år boet rundt omkring i verden, bl.a. i Mexico City og New York. Ud over en række romaner er Frédéric-Yves Jeannet også forfatter til flere samtalebøger med franske forfattere.

VINDER AF NOBELPRISEN I LITTERATUR 2022 Året er 1989. Annie Ernaux nærmer sig de halvtreds og er fraskilt med to voksne sønner, da hun indleder en affære med en diplomat ved den sovjetiske ambassade i Paris. Han er gift, ikke spor intellektuel og elsker dyre biler. Hendes sult efter ham er umættelig. Hun kan ikke skrive, hun bevæger sig søvngængeragtigt gennem verden, mens hun afventer hans næste telefonopringning eller det næste besøg, som hun aldrig ved, hvornår kommer. Da begæret begynder at falme, føler hun, at hun er et skridt nærmere døden. FORTABE SIG er Annie Ernaux’ ucensurerede dagbog fra det år, forholdet til den russiske elsker stod på. I dagbogen er hendes skrift reduceret til det mest nøgne og sårbare. Hvor romanen SIMPEL LIDENSKAB er en fortættetmeditation over det samme kærlighedsforhold, møder vi i FORTABE SIG en kvindes begær, desperation og ensomhed helt umiddelbart og ufiltreret.“Som ANNA KARENINA og MADAME BOVARY må Ernaux’ affære betragtes som et af litteraturens helt store kærlighedsforhold. … Det er, som om man holder hendes hjerte i hænderne.” THE GUARDIAN

”Tidigt på eftermiddagen, en junisöndag, försökte min far döda min mor.” Så inleds Skammen. Annie Ernaux är tolv år när hon blir vittne till att hennes far försöker slå ihjäl hennes mor. Här berättar hon om den traumatiska händelse som kom att prägla hennes liv. Osentimentalt och självutlämnande återskapar hon runt denna våldsscen den värld som var hennes år 1952: den dominerande modern, den kuvade fadern, det enkla hemmet i den lilla staden i Normandie, arbetarklassens sociala regler och koder, privatskolans religiösa – känslan att vara en klassfiende i sin egen familj – känslan att för alltid gå in i skammen … Ju mer Ernaux dyker ner i historien desto mer begriper hon vilket spänningsfält föräldrarna levde i. Mellan önskan om social framgång och skammen över var de kom ifrån. Samtidigt skildrar Ernaux sin egen skam och strävan efter att slippa undan konventionerna hon vuxit upp med och istället följa sin egen längtan efter ett helt annat liv än föräldrarnas.

A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick • A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2023 “Translated from the French with great intelligence and sensitivity by Alison Strayer. . . . Ernaux’s diary is a provocation: to accept these life scenes as worthy of our time and attention.”—Kate Briggs, Washington Post “A dryly charming look at the way the French live now, through the sharp eyes of its most acclaimed chronicler.”—Kirkus Reviews For half a century, the French writer Annie Ernaux has transgressed the boundaries of what stories are considered worth telling, what subjects worth exploring. In this probing meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a ubiquitous feature of modern life that has received scant attention in literature. Recording her visits to a store near Paris for over a year, she captures the world that exists within its massive walls. Through Ernaux’s eyes, the superstore emerges as “a great human meeting place, a spectacle”—a flashy, technologically advanced incarnation of the ancient marketplace where capitalism, cultural production, and class converge, dictating our rhythms of desire. With her relentless powers of observation, Ernaux takes the measure of a place we thought we knew, calling us to question the experiences we overlook and to gaze more deeply into ordinary life.

Da moren får alzheimer, begynner Annie Ernaux å skrive dagbok: om møtene med moren, om de uforståelige tingene hun gjør, om hvordan hun forandrer seg fra dag til dag. Gradvis endrer forholdet deres seg. Moren blir som et barn, og Annie må innta omsorgsrollen – en rolle hun verken makter eller ønsker å ha. Jeg er fortsatt her inne i mørket er en umiddelbar og rå tekst om sorg, tap og kjærlighet. I en skarp, ufiltrert prosa skildrer Annie Ernaux en av vår tids mest ubarmhjertige sykdommer, og viser hvor vondt det kan være å miste en mor selv som voksen.

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, she attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married man where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, Ernaux seeks the truth behind an existence lived, for a time, entirely for someone else.

GANADORA DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2022 Cuando nos salimos del camino marcado, las distancias con quienes nos rodean a veces son insuperables. En abril de 1967, la autora y protagonista, por entonces joven aspirante a profesora de secundaria, supera el examen de capacitaci n en un liceo de Lyon para orgullo (y recelo) de su padre, antiguo obrero que, procedente del medio rural y tras trabajar duramente, ha acabado convertido en propietario de un peque o comercio en las provincias. Para l, eso significa otro paso adelante en su dif cil ascenso social; sin embargo, poco le dura esta satisfacci n, ya que fallece dos meses despu s. Padre e hija han traspasado sus respectivos lugares dentro de la sociedad. Pero se han mirado entre s con suspicacia, y la distancia entre ambos ha ido torn ndose cada vez m s dolorosa. Aqu , Annie Ernaux indaga, pues, no s lo en los complejos y los prejuicios, los usos y las normas de comportamiento de un segmento social de l mites difusos, cuyo espejo es la culta y educada burgues a urbana, sino tambi n en la dificultad de habitar un espacio propio dentro de la sociedad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE When we stray from the marked path, the distances with those around us sometimes become insurmountable. In April 1967, the author and protagonist, then a young aspiring high school teacher, passes the qualification exam at a lyc e in Lyon, to the pride (and resentment) of her father, a former worker who, coming from a rural background and after working hard, has ended up becoming the owner of a small business in the provinces. For him, this means another step forward in his difficult social ascent; however, this satisfaction is short-lived, as he dies two months later. Father and daughter have crossed their respective "places" within society. But they have looked at each other with suspicion, and the distance between them has become increasingly painful. Here, Annie Ernaux delves not only into the complexes and prejudices, the customs and behavioral norms of a social segment with blurred boundaries, whose mirror is the cultured and educated urban bourgeoisie, but also into the difficulty of inhabiting one's own space within society.

GANADORA DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2022 Una mujer ante una sociedad en la que el aborto es un tab (y un delito)En octubre de 1963, cuando Annie Ernaux se halla en Ruan estudiando filolog a, descubre que est embarazada. Desde el primer momento no le cabe la menor duda de que no quiere tener esa criatura no deseada. En una sociedad en la que se penaliza el aborto con prisi n y multa, Annie Ernaux se encuentra sola; hasta su pareja se desentiende del asunto. Despu s de pasar por varios m dicos que cierran los ojos ante su problema, y de intentar pedir ayuda entre sus conocidos y amigos, consigue que una mujer que ha pasado por la misma situaci n le d una direcci n y le preste la enorme suma de dinero que necesitar . Adem s del desamparo y la discriminaci n por parte de una sociedad que le vuelve la espalda, queda la lucha frente al profundo horror y dolor de un aborto clandestino. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA woman facing a society where abortion is a taboo (and a crime)In October 1963, when Annie Ernaux is in Rouen studying philology, she discovers that she is pregnant. From the very first moment, she has no doubt that she does not want to have this unwanted child. In a society where abortion is penalized with imprisonment and fines, Annie Ernaux finds herself alone; even her partner distances himself from the matter. After going through several doctors who turn a blind eye to her problem, and trying to seek help among her acquaintances and friends, she manages to get a woman who has been through the same situation to give her an address and lend her the enormous sum of money she will need. Besides the abandonment and discrimination by a society that turns its back on her, there remains the struggle against the profound horror and pain of a clandestine abortion.

GANADORA DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2022 Una escena familiar, y sus consecuencias perturbadoras, diseccionadas por la autora que ha hecho de su vida materia literariaEn 1952, cuando Annie Ernaux ten a doce a os, su padre quiso matar a su madre un domingo de junio, a primera hora de la tarde. A os despu s, esa escena se le presenta a la autora tan di fanamente cruel como el d a en que la vivi . Como en tantas otras familias, sus padres, que se odian entre s , adoran en cambio a la ni a, por lo que, mientras pasan los d as y el olvido invade el hogar, el recuerdo de aquel domingo parece convertirse en un mal sue o. Sin embargo, esa escena cambi para siempre a la autora: aquella ni a y su familia hab an dejado de ser gente decente , y todo hab a pasado a ser vergonzoso. Annie Ernaux recorre desde los c digos de conducta y las normas sociales que imperaban en su entorno hasta las noticias del momento, las expresiones m s usadas o el temor que infund an las grandes ciudades para calibrar con exactitud hasta qu punto lo ocurrido la hizo sentirse indigna. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA family scene, and its disturbing consequences, dissected by the author who has made her life into literary materialIn 1952, when Annie Ernaux was twelve years old, her father tried to kill her mother one Sunday in June, early in the afternoon. Years later, that scene appears to the author as cruelly clear as the day she lived it. Like in so many other families, her parents, who hate each other, instead adore the child, so as the days pass and forgetfulness invades the home, the memory of that Sunday seems to become a bad dream. However, that scene changed the author forever: that girl and her family "had ceased to be decent people," and everything had become shameful. Annie Ernaux examines everything from the codes of conduct and social norms that prevailed in her environment to the news of the time, the most commonly used expressions, or the fear that big cities instilled, to accurately gauge to what extent what happened made her feel unworthy.

Pod odnoj oblozhkoj dva romana laureatki Nobelevskoj premii Anni Erno. "Obyknovennaja strast" - avtobiograficheskij roman ob oderzhimosti muzhchinoj, kotoraja zastavljaet zhenschinu prenebregat ne tolko vsem mirom, no i sobstvennoj zhiznju. No chto zhe na samom dele est podobnaja strast: prokljate ili roskosh? Roman leg v osnovu odnoimennogo franko-belgijskogo filma, voshedshego v programmu Kannskogo festivalja i Mezhdunarodnogo festivalja v San-Sebastjane. ___________ "Styd" - eto voskreshennye na bumage vospominanija o nravakh poslevoennoj Normandii, katolicheskoj shkole i obzhigajuschem chuvstve styda za svoe proiskhozhdenie i okruzhenie, kotoroe v detstve oschuschaetsja kak nikogda.

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.

Annie Ernaux’s father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux’s father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux’s cold observation in A Man’s Place reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France. Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires.