Book Review: Les Années by Annie Ernaux

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Book Review: Les Années by Annie Ernaux

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A great impersonal autobiography of the exploration of memory, time, and photography. Ernaux has covered 70 years of her life using photographs of herself as basis to discuss collective memories of social-political climate of an ever-changing France with its ideologies and its responses to the world’s events while personal/individual life suffers from the waves from a decade to another, to a year to another, and to events to another. A really powerful, rich, and well-written autobiography.

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.” 

“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.” 

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