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One of the founding texts of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Annie Ernaux. When her father has just died, she retraces the life of the latter, a worker who became a "small shopkeeper" in Normandy. He wanted to find his "place in the sun" and raise his daughter in every sense of the word. In it, Annie Ernaux describes her social emancipation and the sometimes painful distance between the scholar she was becoming and the one who remained in her place. A great story, an exercise in style that has become an example for an entire generation of "class defector" writers.
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"As a child, when I tried to express myself in chastened language, I felt like I was throwing myself into the void. One of my imaginary fears, having a father who was a teacher who would have forced me to speak well all the time by detaching the words. We spoke with our whole mouths. Since the ma was "taking over" me, later I wanted to take my father back, to tell him that "to go to the ground" or "quarter less than eleven o'clock" did not exist. He became violently angry. Another time: "How can you expect me not to be reprimanded if you speak badly all the time!" I was crying. He was unhappy. Everything that has to do with language is in my memory a reason for resentment and painful quarrels, much more than money."
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One of the founding texts of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Annie Ernaux. When her father has just died, she retraces the life of the latter, a worker who became a "small shopkeeper" in Normandy. He wanted to find his "place in the sun" and raise his daughter in every sense of the word. In it, Annie Ernaux describes her social emancipation and the sometimes painful distance between the scholar she was becoming and the one who remained in her place. A great story, an exercise in style that has become an example for an entire generation of "class defector" writers.