The Years - Annie Ernaux
Category: Novel
Narrator: Anna Bentinck
Tags: Novel, Contemporary, Adults, Literature
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirists defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008., The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and presenteven projections into the futurephotos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from 6 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 authors 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, bestsell
