A Man's Place WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux (Engl

Description: A Man's Place WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernauxs father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernauxs cold observation in A Mans Place reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Annie Ernauxs father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernauxs father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernauxs cold observation in A Mans 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.Ernaux has inherited de Beauvoirs role of chronicler to a generation. - Margaret Drabble Author Biography Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National dEnseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Mans Place and A Womans Story, have become contemporary classics in France. The Years won the Prix Renaudot in France in 2008, the Premio Strega in Italy in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. In 2017, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her lifes work. Review A lesser writer would turn these experiences into misery memoirs, but Ernaux does not ask for our pity - or our admiration. Its clear from the start that she doesnt much care whether we like her or not, because she has no interest in herself as an individual entity. She is an emblematic daughter of emblematic French parents, part of an inevitable historical process, which includes breaking away. Her interest is in examining the breakage... Ernaux is the betrayer and her father the betrayed: this is the narrative undertow that makes A Mans Place so lacerating.? Frances Wilson, TelegraphNot simply a short biography of man manacled to class assumptions, this is also, ironically, an exercise in the art of unsentimental writing... The biography is also self-reflexive in its inquiry and suggests the question: what does it mean to contain a life within a number of pages?? Mia Colleran, Irish TimesErnaux understands that writing about her parents is a form of betrayal. That she writes about their struggle to understand the middle-class literary world into which she has moved makes that betrayal all the more painful. But still she does it - and it is thrilling to read Ernaux working out, word by word, what she deems appropriate to include in each text. In being willing to show her discomfort, her disdain and her honest, careful consideration of the dilemmas of writing about real, lived lives, Ernaux has struck upon a bold new way to write memoir. --? Ellen Pierson-Hagger, New Statesman Long Description Annie Ernauxs father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernauxs father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernauxs cold observation in A Mans 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. Ernaux has inherited de Beauvoirs role of chronicler to a generation. - Margaret Drabble Review Text A lesser writer would turn these experiences into misery memoirs, but Ernaux does not ask for our pity - or our admiration. Its clear from the start that she doesnt much care whether we like her or not, because she has no interest in herself as an individual entity. She is an emblematic daughter of emblematic French parents, part of an inevitable historical process, which includes breaking away. Her interest is in examining the breakage... Ernaux is the betrayer and her father the betrayed: this is the narrative undertow that makes A Mans Place so lacerating.? Frances Wilson, Telegraph Not simply a short biography of man manacled to class assumptions, this is also, ironically, an exercise in the art of unsentimental writing... The biography is also self-reflexive in its inquiry and suggests the question: what does it mean to contain a life within a number of pages?? Mia Colleran, Irish Times Ernaux understands that writing about her parents is a form of betrayal. That she writes about their struggle to understand the middle-class literary world into which she has moved makes that betrayal all the more painful. But still she does it - and it is thrilling to read Ernaux working out, word by word, what she deems appropriate to include in each text. In being willing to show her discomfort, her disdain and her honest, careful consideration of the dilemmas of writing about real, lived lives, Ernaux has struck upon a bold new way to write memoir. --? Ellen Pierson-Hagger, New Statesman Details ISBN1913097366 Author Tanya Leslie Pages 80 Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions Year 2020 Translator Tanya Leslie ISBN-10 1913097366 ISBN-13 9781913097363 Format Paperback Imprint Fitzcarraldo Editions Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from French AU Release Date 2020-10-28 NZ Release Date 2020-10-28 Language English Publication Date 2020-10-28 UK Release Date 2020-10-28 Alternative 9781913097370 DEWEY 843.914 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:129905318;

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