Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux, 2011

Annie Ernaux , née Duchesne (born September 1, 1940 in Lillebonne , Seine-Maritime ), is a French writer . Her literary work is essentially autobiographical . Her book Les Années was published in France in 2008 and is very successful. The German translation ( Die Jahre ) was published in 2017 and also received a lot of attention.

Life

Ernaux spent her childhood and youth in Yvetot in Normandy. She grew up in modest circumstances. Her parents were initially workers and later ran a small shop with a café. She attended a lycée and studied in Rouen and Bordeaux . Ernaux then worked as a teacher at the high school in Bonneville , at the Collège d'Évire in Annecy-le-Vieux , in Pontoise and at the Center national d'enseignement à distance (CNED).

Literary career

In 1974 Ernaux published her first autobiographical novel Les Armoires vides . In 1984 she received the Prix ​​Renaudot for La Place .

The novel Les Années , published in 2008, has received several awards. Also in 2008 she received the "Prix de la langue française" for her complete works.

In 2011 she published L'Autre Fille , a letter to her sister who had died as a six-year-old child, two years before the author's birth. Also in 2011 was L'Atelier noir , a collection of notes, plans and thoughts on her work. The anthology Écrire la vie was also published in 2011 in Quarto . In addition to most of her autobiographical works, this includes photographs and diary clippings.

In April 2016 she published another autobiographical work, Mémoire de fille (Memory of a Girl), in which she deals with the first sexual experiences made in the summer of 1958 and their lifelong effects. She writes of the "memory of shame":

“The great memory of shame is much clearer and more ruthless than any other. It is basically the special gift of shame. "

- Annie Ernaux : Memory of a Girl

Her works have been translated into several languages. Tales and the novels The Better Life (1988, again as Der Platz 2019), The Life of a Woman (1993, French "Une femme", 1989) and Faces of a Woman (2007), To lose yourself (2003) are in German. , A complete passion: the story of an erotic fascination (2004), The Years (2017), Memory of a Girl (2018) and as a new translation of "Une femme": Eine Frau (2019).

Contemporary witness

So far, all French revolutions have come from Paris, but not for the first time, says Ernaux about the yellow vests movement in an interview with Die Zeit . There is a rift between those who benefit from liberalism and work in jobs of the future and those who are employed in service jobs or as manual workers. “You feel like you're stuck and unable to move forward. The speeches Macron makes are completely detached from their reality. ”The petrol tax is a symbol in a certain way: the yellow vests need the car because there is no public transport where they live. "The small towns in France have been badly neglected, that's an old story."

"" The man in pajamas and slippers in the old people's home in Pontoise is to be rescued, who every afternoon asked all visitors to call his son and, crying, held out a dirty piece of paper with the telephone number ". Elsewhere Ernaux speaks of the fact that writing always scares her, that it is a serious matter: It is the “right place”, the one where she addresses her memory. It's not even a very personal act, but like visiting an archive that she knows particularly well. This archive is a fiction, namely the one in which you can go through your own memory like a file box. This fiction is necessary to get the narrative going. A single photo serves as a find from this archive, a single item that needs to be described, analyzed and tolerated. A photo like this is a good start, something concrete that you can say something about. It starts with a description, so you are not alone with the blank page, the photo is there. "

- Annie Ernaux speaks for itself, from Hanna Engelmeier :

reception

Annie Ernaux is regarded as "one of the most formative voices in contemporary French literature". She is received positively in the university environment and her work is the subject of numerous academic papers. In literary criticism, her work is predominantly received positively, while individual voices judge it as "displaying misery" or "banal and unbelievable presumption". Mémoire de fille was attested “a smell of mothballs”, and one had “the impression that one had read the same thing a thousand times” from her. Others, on the other hand, attribute the great popularity and the direct connection between the author and the readership to Ernaux's great talent, who developed the cutting style of her first novels into a classical rigor. Her dry, minimalist and seemingly cold écriture plate may hide tears: “cette froideur cache peut-être des larmes” Nathalie Crom praises Les Années as a large and beautiful book in which her mastery comes to fruition. Ernaux has since received extraordinary attention from literary criticism and readership; the publication of Les Années had met with general approval. The book became a bestseller.

Nils Minkmar rated the German-language version of Les Années published in September 2017 : The years in "Spiegel" under the heading A female Proust as a "masterpiece". Ernaux has "a class that many of her male colleagues lack". According to Ruth Fühner, Ernaux undertakes the largely “superb” attempt to depict “her own lifetime as an era”. Peter Urban-Halle commented on Deutschlandfunk Kultur : “In our time of the autobiographical novel, the French Annie Ernaux is writing an anti-autobiography. Since for her the individual and the collective influence each other, there is no ego in her unique book. ”The author writes“ factually ”,“ without metaphors and without judgments ”from a sociological perspective, influenced by Pierre Bourdieu and based on photos from hers Life. Meike Feßmann described Annie Ernaux as an “outstanding writer” in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Feßmann names Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf , the sociologists Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu and Roland Barthes as models for this “independent” work . A review by Klaus Bittermann appeared in the TAZ When the bodies swam through Paris. The title refers to the Paris massacre . “The post-war period, the Algerian crisis, May '68, Mitterrand, the women's movement - Annie Ernaux has written an unusual piece of memory literature in which personal history tells a collective story. Not a classic autobiography because, as Annie Ernaux says: You are not alone. ”Bittermann states that it is a“ great book ”. Critically, he notes that the back part of the story is partly banal because the events no longer have any direct relation to the author. From the turn of the millennium, he emphasizes a melancholy undertone and a distance to the events. As the title for his book review, Tobias Schwartz chose Something from Time to Save in the Tagesspiegel, citing part of the last sentence of Ernaux's work. He postulates that one could call Ernaux a sociologist. Together with the sociologist Didier Eribon , who explicitly refers to her, she performed at the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair . Ernaux sees herself as an “ethnologist of herself”. Schwartz emphasizes that the text is "experimental", "demanding", sometimes "daring" and yet still has an audience appeal.

The literary quartet at the Frankfurt Book Fair had a. a. Annie Ernaux's work The Years on the subject. Volker Weidermann , Christine Westermann and guest Johannes Willms spoke out in favor of the book, Thea Dorn against. Willms, who presented the text, called it a “sociography”, a story of emancipation as a woman and a provincial girl who is training as a teacher in Paris. He recommended the "exciting reading". Christine Westermann related the text to her own childhood and youth and described it as a journey through time into her own life. For Volker Weidermann, Die Jahre bis 1989 is a “book of departure” that grabbed him after initial irritation. Thea Dorn strongly opposed the use of the "man" instead of "I". The “quasi sociological” instead of literary book is political, left-wing and post-structural . She complained that, according to Ernaux, a girl from a small family in the provinces should not have any subjectivity. Michael Kuhlmann analyzed the author's language on Südwestfunk and pointed out the translator's work, which made the book worth reading. An interview by Beate Tröger with Sonja Finck on the translation requirements was published in the weekly newspaper Der Freitag . According to Magnus Klaue , Ernaux succeeds in Die Jahre what Eribon had only promised when he returned to Reims : “The happy alliance of autobiography and historiography.” According to Christoph Vormweg, it is a provocative invitation to self-reflection. He quotes Ernaux's intention to "save something from the time in which one will never be again."

In the Tagesspiegel, Gerrit Bartels reviews a girl's memory under the title Desire is desirable. 'Remarkably intrepid' as early as 1958 :

“It is exciting how Ernaux circles herself in her book, how she asks about the reality content of what has been experienced, what is remembered, how she struggles for the cognitive value, for the truth of 'this narrative'. And that she knows: this is why her autobiographical literature is something special, her life is an inexhaustible reservoir of material, because writing, experiencing and remembering can never be brought completely into line. "

- Gerrit Bartels

In the Wiener Zeitung , Shirin Sojitrawalla quotes Ernaux on the relationship between event and memory:

“I don't construct a character in a novel. I am deconstructing the girl I was ... To explore the abyss between the immense reality of an event at the moment it happens and the strange unreality that this event assumes years later. "

- Ernaux, memory of a girl :

Ernaux considers her work in the context of literature, sociology and history and “wants to find the memory of collective memory in an individual memory and thus fill history with life.” She describes her self as fragmentary, not continuous, determined by chance. Traumatic experiences in childhood and adolescence were kept secret in the family and are the cause of lifelong shame.

"" I will never hear her voice again. It was her, her words, her hands, her gestures, her gait and her way of laughing that connected the woman I am today with the child I have been I've lost the last bridge to the world I come from. " What sentences! Annie Ernaux writes it in her new book "A Woman", the woman is her mother ... Sonja Finck translated it into German. "

- ZEIT magazine, November 2019

Franz Schultheis will focus specifically on the relationship between Ernaux and Pierre Bourdieu in 2020:

“In France, Ernaux developed, parallel to Bourdieu's" The Subtle Differences "almost four decades ago, a related and in many ways complementary literary perspective on French class society. It is amazing how late they were discovered in German-speaking countries ... In the 1980s, when Bourdieus and Ernaux 'social analyzes were part of the standard repertoire of intellectual life in France, mainstream German sociology celebrated the "end of class society" and the Elevator up for everyone. Now, almost 4 decades later, in the face of growing social inequalities in access to all forms of life opportunities, people seem to be reflecting on the gravity of social reproductions. "

- Schultheis, supplement to jungle world , July 31, 30, 2020, pp. 10-13

Publications

• Les armoires vides. Gallimard, Paris 1974
• Ce qu'ils disent ou rien. Gallimard, 1977
• La femme gelée. Novel. Gallimard, 1981
• La place. Gallimard, 1983
  • Übers. Barbara Scriba-Sethe: The better life. Narrative. Fischer TB, Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 978-3-596-29249-3 , again in: Modern French prose. Ernaux, Danièle Sallenave , Mireille Best, François Bon . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-353-00350-9 , pp. 5 - 62. With bio-bibliographical notes. Other texts: marriage talks, by Sallenave; Psalm for Frédérique, by Best; Limit of receipt; Translated from these texts by Eva Schewe, Gotthardt Schön, Christiane Baumann with Gisela Lerch.
  • Neuübers. Sonja Finck : The place. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019 ISBN 978-3518-22509-7 .
• Une femme. Gallimard, Paris 1988
  • Übers. Regina Maria Hartig: The life of a woman. Fischer TB, Frankfurt am Main 1993 ISBN 3-596-11644-9
  • also as: faces of a woman. Same translator. Goldmann, Munich 2007 ISBN 978-3-442-45363-4
  • New translation Sonja Finck: A woman . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019 ISBN 978-3-518-22512-7
• Passion simple. Gallimard, Paris 1991
  • Übers. Regina Maria Hartig: A complete passion. The story of an erotic fascination. Goldmann, Munich 2004 ISBN 3-442-45364-X
• Journal du Dehors. Gallimard, 1993
• La honte. Gallimard, 1997
  • Übers. Sonja Finck: The shame . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2020. ISBN 978-3-518-22517-2
• Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit. Gallimard, 1997
• L'evénement. Gallimard, Paris 2000
• Se perdre. Gallimard, 2001
  • Übers. Gaby Wurster: Lose yourself. Goldmann, Munich 2003 ISBN 978-3-442-31003-6
• L'Occupation . Gallimard, 2002
• with Marc Marie: L'Usage de la photo, textes d'après photographies , Gallimard, 2005
• Les années. Gallimard, 2008
  • Übers. Sonja Finck: The years . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-22502-8 .
• L 'écriture comme un couteau. Stock, Paris 2011
• Return to Yvetot . Mauconduit, Paris 2013
• Regarde les lumières, mon amour. Row: Raconter la vie . Seuil, Paris 2014
• Mémoire de fille. Gallimard, Paris, 2016 ISBN 978-2-07-014597-3 .
  • Übers. Sonja Finck: Memory of a girl. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018 ISBN 3-518-42792-X ; Gutenberg Book Guild again , 2019

Awards and honors

• Prix ​​Renaudot 1984 for La Place
• Prix ​​Marguerite-Duras 2008 for Les Années
• Prix ​​François Mauriac for Les Années
• Prix ​​de la langue française 2008 for their complete works
• Doctor honoris causa at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise , 2014
• Premio Feronia-Città di Fiano 2014, honor as a foreign language author for La Place
• Premio Strega Europeo 2016 for Les Années and for the Italian translation by Lorenzo Flabbi
• Prix ​​Marguerite-Yourcenar 2017 of the Société civile des auteurs multimédia (Scam) for her complete work, endowed with 8,000 €
• "Premio Ernest Hemingway di Lignano Sabbiadoro ", 2018, 34th year, for her complete works
• Premio Gregor von Rezzori , 2019, for Una Donna
• Premio Formentor de las Letras, 2019
• Prix ​​de l'Académie de Berlin , 2019

"A relentlessly sincere self-questioning, with which Ernaux penetrates into the most intimate corners of herself ... (she tells) the confusion, the brokenness of contemporary life"

- The jury's reasoning for the Premio Formentor 2019

Namesake

• “Prix Annie-Ernaux”, a € 1000 prize for previously unpublished texts on given topics, located in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt , founded in 2001.

Radio play adaptations

• 2018: the years . Production: hr , editing and direction: Luise Vogt, speakers: Birte Schnöink , Constanze Becker , Corinna Harfouch and Nicole Heesters . CD publication: Der Audio-Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-7424-1032-0 .
• 2020: memory of a girl . Production: SWR , editing and direction: Irene Schuck , speakers: Hedi Kriegeskotte , Anna Drexler , Peer Oscar Musinowski and Andrea Hörnke-Trieß.
• 2020: The place . Production: hr , editing and direction: Erik Altorfer , music: Martin Schütz , speaker: Stephanie Eidt . CD publication: Der Audio-Verlag 2020, ISBN 978-3-7424-1707-7 .

literature

• Roswitha Böhm: Annie Ernaux. Of happiness and alienation , in: French contemporary literature. An author's lexicon. Ed. Petra Metz, Dirk Naguschewski. CH Beck, Munich 2001, pp. 86-89
• Hanna Engelmeier: The Shame of the Girl from 1958. taz , November 17, 2018, p. 16 (Review of Memory of a Mächens. Photographic portrait of Ernaux 'by Isolde Ohlbaum )
• Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf: "Photographic" family (auto) biographies of Philippe Delerm and Annie Ernaux , in border crossings. Contributions to a modern Romance studies , 14, 2007 ISSN  0944-8594 pp. 72 - 88
• Eva Marlene Heubach: “Etre ethnologue de soi-même”. Realism of reference and Annie Ernaux '“Les Années” (2008), in France. Yearbook for European Ethnology, 6th ed. Heidrun Alzheimer u. a. Gorres Society . Schöningh, Paderborn 2011 ISSN  0171-9904 pp. 69-91
• Wolfgang Höbel : Sexual awakening in 1958, in Literaturspiegel , 10, 2018 online , September 29, 2018 (review of "Memory ...", he compares the work with Patrick Modiano's work)
• Robert Kahn , Laurence Macé, Françoise Simonet-Tenant (eds.): Annie Ernaux: l'intertextualité ; with contributions by Michèle Bacholle-Bošković, Pierre-Louis Fort, Nathalie Froloff and 13 other authors. Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, Mont-Saint-Aignan 2015 ISBN 979-1-02-400464-8
• Sandra Kegel : Ernaux continues her deep literary drilling into history with “A Girl's Memory”, FAZ , October 6, 2018 full text
• Eva Kimminich : Power and magic of words. On the function of writing in Annie Ernaux's work. In: Wolfgang Asholt, ed .: Intertextuality and Subversiveness. Studies of novel literature in France in the 1980s. Series: Siegen, contributions to literature, language and media studies, 120. Winter, Heidelberg 1994, pp. 149–159
• Agnieszka Komorowska: shame and writing. Strategies of literary subject constitution in Duras , Goldschmidt and Ernaux. Winter, Heidelberg 2017 ISBN 9783825374938
• Heike Ina Kuhl: “You mauvais goût”: Annie Ernaux's educational advancement as self-destruction critical of literature and society: an examination of her work with the help of linguistic, psychological and sociological criteria. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-484-55035-3 Zugl. Diss. Phil. University of Freiburg im Breisgau 1997. Reprint de Gruyter, Berlin 2016 ISBN 978-3-11-091025-4
• Siobhan McIlvanney: Annie Ernaux. The return to origins. Liverpool University Press 2001
• Le vrai lieu. Interview with Michelle Porte. Gallimard, Paris 2014 ISBN 978-2-07-014596-6
• Iris Radisch : “I feel guilty.” Annie Ernaux is a literary legend in France. A visit to the headstrong old lady in Cergy , Die Zeit , October 11, 2018. p. 49 (at the same time a detailed presentation of “A girl's memory”)
• Iris Radisch: In the eye of the cyclone. A conversation with Annie Ernaux about the uprising of the yellow vests. Die Zeit, 51, December 6, 2018, p. 45
• Alex Rühle : World without me. Visiting the writer Annie Ernaux, SZ , September 29, 2018, features section, p. 20 (at the same time a detailed presentation of “A girl's memory”)
• Karen Struve: "Les artistes de l'intime": erotic bodies in the field of tension between intimacy and the public in Christine Angot , Catherine Millet and Annie Ernaux. Lit, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-8258-8958-6 Zugl. Diss. Phil. University of Bremen . Prix ​​Germaine de Staël 2008
• Friedrich Wolfschrift: Emancipation and self-alienation through reading. The autobiographical novels by Annie Ernaux , in: Angelica Rieger, Jean-François Tonard: La lecture au féminin. La lectrice dans la littérature française du moyen age au XXe siècle - women reading. On the cultural history of the reader in French literature from the beginnings to the 20th century. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft , Darmstadt 1999, pp. 249–266

Web links

Commons : Annie Ernaux  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Annie Ernaux in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page on the author at the University of St Andrews , alternatively English / French; Catalog of works including smaller writings
• Website of the Suhrkamp-Verlag on Annie Ernaux: Die Jahre , Link to the reading sample on p. 21; In the "Mediathek" area (= blue tab above) three different interviews with Ernaux on the 3 works published in German since 2017 (audio only)
• Christoph Vormweg: Didier Eribon, Édouard Louis, Annie Ernaux - French writers with sociological glasses . WDR 3 - Kulturfeature, October 7, 2017 (audio file) 58 min.
• Annie Ernaux: Reading from The Years and Conversation in the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Organizer: Suhrkamp-Verlag. Moderation and translation: Patricia Klobusiczky . German voice: Tatjana Pasztor.
• Beate Tröger : Annie Ernaux, Didier Eribon and questions of autobiographical writing , in “What is literature?”, October 15, 2017
• Beate Tröger: "Please tell me who I am". In “A Girl's Memory”, Annie Ernaux asks about the conditions and consequences of her first sexual experiences. At: "fixpoetry. We talk about literature", October 24, 2018
• Anne-Catherine Simon : Writer Annie Ernaux: "The dead child was the worst taboo". Writer in conversation. Shame about the violence she experienced shaped her life, she made great literature out of it: The French Annie Ernaux about sexual and even more annoying taboos, social shame and the only thing that she likes about Macron. In: Die Presse print and online (partially subject to a charge), January 4, 2018, p. 19
• Beatrice von Matt : An autobiography without me. Annie Ernaux dares to embark on an amazing storytelling project. She tells about her life based on the things that shaped the time, nzz.ch , features section, February 11, 2018
• Literature Club SRF , The Literature Club in SRF , discussion, presentation by Milo Rau , 5 min. Text from “A girl's memory”, November 13, 2018 and ö.
• 1st place: SWR best list , memory of a girl for December 2018
  • Audio , four critics discuss the first 4 books on this list (57 min), Literarisches Colloquium Berlin , mp3
• Ernaux: Pierre Bourdieu: sociologue énervant. Décès de Pierre Bourdieu. (Obituary, French) On what Bourdieu meant for you, from Le Monde , February 5, 2002
• Works by and about Annie Ernaux at Open Library
• University of Freiburg , full text by Joseph Jurt : La transmission d'une expérience de dominés. Pierre Bourdieu , Annie Ernaux, in Antony Soron; Agnès Lhermitte; Danielle Règnier-Bohler Ed .: Imaginaire et transmission. Mélanges offerts à Gérart Peylet. Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, Pessac 2017 10.6094 / UNIFR / 12980 pp. 95 - 110
• Short text on the essay by Katharina Sykora , in Camera Austria , 146, 2019: "Writing life". Annie Ernaux . "Photosociobiography" or a "photoliterative process" as a term for the way Ernaux uses photos in her novels. Complete text: pp. 9–20 (further reading)
• Elise Hugueny-Lége: "Je e (s) t les autres." Transgressions textuelles, déplacement littéraires, et enjeux sociopolitiiques du transpersonnel dans l'oeuvre d'Annie Ernaux Diss. Phil. Durham University 2007
• Entretien avec Pierre-Louis Fort , en “Annie Ernaux. Un engagement d'écriture ”. Pierre-Louis Fort, Violaine Houdart-Merot eds., Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle 2015, p 201-207 Table of contents of the book , all contributions are available online
• Ernaux at babelio , with links to all works and reference to over 1000 reviews, 2019 (French)
• The merciless memory of shame , full text , 1, 2019, by Julia Schoch (about the 3 new translations 2017 - 2019)
• "Literary criticism" : deciphering the details. In her father's portrait “Der Platz”, Ernaux succeeds in making a touching study of the milieu. By Beat Mazenauer, April 10, 2019
• “Quelque part entre la littérature, la sociologie et l'histoire…” L'œuvre auto-sociobiographique d'Annie Ernaux , by Isabelle Charpentier, Contextes, 1, 2006
• The author in the database Auteurs contemporains. With a link to an extensive list of secondary literature ("Ensemble de l'oeuvre"), French.

Remarks

1. ↑ Annie Ernaux: "The Years" on Perlentaucher.de . Blurb, excerpt from the publisher and review notes.
2. ↑ Héloïse Kolebka: Annie Ernaux: "Je ne suis qu'histoire" (=  L'Histoire . No. 332 ). June 2008, ISSN  0182-2411 (18 pp., Presse.fr ).
3. ↑ Interview with Annie Ernaux. Center Gallimard de l'enseignement, accessed October 16, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Annie Ernaux: prix de la langue française. Etat-critique.com, archived from the original ; accessed on October 16, 2017 . 
5. ^ Bernard Desportes: Annie Ernaux et l'autre fille. Bibliobs, March 7, 2011, accessed October 16, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Les armoires vides; La honte; L'événement; La femme jelly; La place; Hôtel Casanova, Histoires, Retours; Journal du dehors; Literature et politique; Une femme; Cesare Pavese , Images, questions d'URSS; Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit; Passion simple; Leipzig, passage, De l autre côté du siècle; Se perdre; L'occupation; Le chagrin, L'homme de la poste à C., La fête; Les années. With 100 pages of photos and excerpts from Journal intime , not yet published.
7. ↑ Fiche de l'ouvrage Mémoire de fille , Gallimard.
8. ^ "Mémoire de fille" d'Annie Ernaux, récit de l'été douloureux de ses 18 ans. Radio Télévision Suisse , June 1, 2016, accessed on October 18, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Memory of a girl, Suhrkamp 2018, p. 17. Transl. Sonja Finck
10. ↑ In the Eye of the Cyclone. A conversation with Annie Ernaux about the uprising of the yellow vests and the deep rift between the French province and the big city. For the renowned writer, one thing is certain: Paris is currently experiencing a popular revolution. In: Die Zeit , December 6, 2018, p. 45. “There is a privileged class that lives in the big cities. She masters the culture, the media, the means of communication, the grandes écoles and so on. And there is a middle class in the small towns that has no more hope. "(Ibid.)
11. ↑ Texts on Art, September 4, 2019 . The quote from the old people's home in Die Jahre , p. 255. Engelmeier works at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen.
12. ↑ Annie Ernaux: A work on the pulse of time. University of Freiburg , accessed on October 18, 2017 . 
13. ^ Annie Ernaux: Documentation critique. Auteurs contemporains: Discours critique sur les œuvres de littérature contemporaine, accessed on October 18, 2017 . 
14. ^ Grégoire Leménager: Annie Ernaux: "Je voulais venger ma race". L'Obs , December 15, 2011, accessed October 18, 2017 . 
15. ^ Marianne Grosjean: "Mémoire de fille" d'Annie Ernaux sent la naphtaline. Tribune de Genève , April 15, 2016, accessed October 18, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Marie-France Savéan: La Place et Une femme d'Annie Ernaux. Gallimard , accessed October 18, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Marie-France SAVEAN: La Place et Une Femme d'Annie Ernaux. Paris, Gallimard, 1994, p. 192. Quoted from Lucie Chytilová: "L'écriture plate" dans les œuvres La Place, Une Femme et La Honte d'Annie Ernaux. Brno 2011, p. 6
18. ^ Nathalie Crom: Les Années, Annie Ernaux. Telerama, February 4, 2008, accessed October 18, 2017 . 
19. ↑ Sergio Villani: Éditorial . In: LittéRéalité , 2008.
20. ↑ Tobias Schwartz: "The Years" by Annie Ernaux. Saving some of the time. In: Der Tagesspiegel online, October 17, 2017.
21. ↑ Nils Minkmar: Female Proust. Spiegel Online , August 26, 2017, accessed October 18, 2017 . 
22. ↑ Ruth Fühner: Annie Ernaux: book tip. "The Years" ( Memento from December 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Hessischer Rundfunk 2 Kultur, September 12, 2017, broadcast on September 13, 8:30 a.m.
23. ↑ Peter Urban-Halle: Annie Ernaux: "The Years." Memories without first-person narrators. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, October 10, 2017. Book review for listening and reading.
24. ^ Meike Feßmann: French literature. Me and lunch . Süddeutsche Zeitung online, October 11, 2017.
25. ↑ Klaus Bittermann: When the bodies swam through Paris. The daily newspaper online, October 10, 2017.
26. ↑ Suhrkamp: Annie Erneaux and Didier Eribon in conversation at the Frankfurt Book Fair , Evangelical Academy Frankfurt, October 12, 2017.
27. ↑ Tobias Schwartz: "The Years" by Annie Ernaux. Saving some of the time . Der Tagesspiegel online, October 17, 2017.
28. ↑ Michael Kuhlmann: Review of the years as an audio file . SWR2 , series Worth reading, November 13, 2017, the manuscript can be viewed at the broadcaster.
29. ↑ Beate Tröger: “Thinking from death.” We spoke to the German translator . Friday , November 16, 2017, p. 17
30. ↑ Magnus Klaue: Still pictures. In: jungle. Supplement to Jungle World , No. 51–52, December 21, 2017, p. 10f, online , January 2, 2018
31. ↑ Christoph Vormweg: Annie Ernaux: "The Years." Provocative invitation to self-reflection. Deutschlandfunk , audio and print, January 15, 2018
32. ↑ Tagesspiegel, November 20, 2018
33. ↑ Annie Ernaux as an ethnologist of herself: Lebensklug, poetisch , January 26, 2019
34. ↑ Annie Ernaux, The Years, p. 252
35. ↑ Interview by Anne-Catherine Simon with Annie Ernaux: “The dead child was the worst taboo”. In: Die Presse , January 4, 2018, p. 19
36. ↑ Dates of life: March 20, 1939 - March 5, 2015
37. ↑ awarded the Eugen Helmlé Prize 2019, also for her three new translations of Ernaux '2017 - 2019; "Der Platz": The first pages on google books .
38. ↑ cf. Wiener Zeitung: Despite everything happy by Andreas Wirthensohn, March 9, 2019: Thanks to Suhrkamp (and the wonderful translator Sonja Finck) that we can now really discover this great writer in German.
39. ↑ Ernaux with her translator Sonja Finck , member of the VdÜ , 2017.
40. ↑ Excerpt from Capturing the Present State of Things. Contemporary literature from France. die horen , 62, 267, autumn 2017
41. ↑ Annie Ernaux in an interview with Sandrine Blanchard: Annie Ernaux: "Je ne pensais qu'à désobéir." Annie Ernaux vient de publier “Mémoire de fille”, un livre bouleversant sur deux années cruciales de sa jeunesse. , Le Monde , April 3, 2016, also online
42. ^ The first pages of the book on google books
43. ↑ on annie-ernaux.org . The place is Ernaux's long-term residence until today. Je vais recevoir le titre de Docteur d'honneur de l'Université de Cergy-Pontoise, au cours d'un colloque international qui sera organisé autour de mon œuvre en novembre à Cergy. Moi, qui suis rebelle à toute forme de distinction, c'est la seule que j'accepterai. Parce qu'elle a du sens. Ernaux in: Ma mémoire est liée à la ville nouvelle , entretien. Le Parisien , January 17, 2014, 2014
44. ↑ Annie Ernaux. Prize winner of the Prix Marguerite-Yourcenar 2017 on December 4, 2017
45. ↑ cf. Prix ​​Formentor
46. ↑ The books ... electrified a French, now also a German audience, something completely new was recognized ... Ultra-modern, daring, masterfully composed literature that tells of class struggles, the unreasonable demands of cultural difference and the emancipation of women. Jury statement
47. ↑ an example: Passion (s). Recueil de nouvelles . Ed. Bibliothèque municipale Albert Cohen, Amis de la Bibliothèque municipale Albert Cohen, Librairie à la page. Calam Multimédia, Condé-sur-Noireau 2007
48. ↑ “What can be saved from the time that lies behind us? This question drives us mortals again and again. "...