I Remain in Darkness
Annie Ernaux
(Author)
Tanya Leslie
(Translator)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAn extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother, and of both women's strength and resiliency. I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie's attempts first to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent. I Remain in Darkness is a new high water mark for Ernaux, surging with raw emotional power and her sublime ability to use language to apprehend her own life's particular music. A Washington Post Top Memoir of 1999
Product Details
Price
$11.95
$11.11
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Publish Date
November 07, 2000
Pages
96
Dimensions
5.52 X 8.23 X 0.29 inches | 0.28 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781583220528
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About the Author
Born in 1940, ANNIE ERNAUX grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and began teaching high school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d'Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man's Place and A Woman's Story, have become contemporary classics in France. She won the prestigious Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place when it was first published in French in 1984. The English edition was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The English edition of A Woman's Story was a New York Times Notable Book.
Reviews
"A testament to the persistent, haunting, and melancholy quality of memory." --New York Times "As always, Ernaux's marriage of opposites--disgust and adoration, revulsion and emulation, dirt-physical and heady-theoretical--takes place on the whitest of pages. Ernaux's opposites rip her in two in spite of her spare language. ... [Her] art is in her fight with words." --Los Angeles Times "Ernaux courageously bears witness both to complex multiple truths of family relationships and to the fierce persistence of family love." --Washington Post Book World "Again blurring the line between memoir and fiction, Ernaux continues the story of her family in journal form ... Several recurring themes are woven throughout, notably those of time, art and the relationship between mother and daughter. Like Ernaux's other work (Shame; Simple Passion), this is 'not literature' exactly, but 'an attempt to salvage part of our lives, to understand, but first to salvage, ' poignant though limited in its reach." --Publishers Weekly
