The years
(Book - Regular Print)
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Author
Contributors
Strayer, Alison L., translator.
Published
New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2017].
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Cottonwood Public Library - NF - Nonfiction Books
92 ERNAUX
1 available
92 ERNAUX
1 available
Prescott Public Library - NF - Nonfiction Books
843.914 ERNAUX
1 available
843.914 ERNAUX
1 available
Prescott Valley Public Library - BIO - Biography Collection
ERNAUX, ANNIE
2 available
ERNAUX, ANNIE
2 available
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Published
New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2017].
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English
Notes
Description
"Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. 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 six 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.""--,Provided by publisher.
Language
First published in French as Les Années (Paris : Gallimard, c2008).
Awards
Nobel Prize in literature, 2022.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ernaux, A., & Strayer, A. L. (2017). The years . Seven Stories Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ernaux, Annie, 1940- and Alison L., Strayer. 2017. The Years. Seven Stories Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ernaux, Annie, 1940- and Alison L., Strayer. The Years Seven Stories Press, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ernaux, Annie, and Alison L. Strayer. The Years Seven Stories Press, 2017.
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