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The Years Paperback - 2017
by Ernaux, Annie
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Details
- Title The Years
- Author Ernaux, Annie
- Binding Paperback
- Condition UsedVeryGood
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Seven Stories Press
- Date 2017-11-21
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00T50D_ns
- ISBN 9781609807870 / 1609807871
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: French
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, French - 20th century, Autobiographies
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017003723
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008
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 6 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 to anonymity. 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.” - from the publisher