Years, The, Annie Ernaux
Years, The, Annie Ernaux
1 Rating(s)
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

Years, The

Author: Annie Ernaux

Narrator: Anna Bentinck

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2020

Synopsis

The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 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 and headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and written notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the time, slogans, brands, and names for ever-proliferating objects are given a 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. Although 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.

About Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux is an award-winning, bestselling French author who began her career writing fiction and later turned to autobiographies. Her novels have won many notable awards and recognitions, including the 2008 Marguerite Duras Prize, three New York Times Notable Books, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998. She is one of the seven founding members of Seven Stories Press.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam on February 06, 2020

What a fabulous collage of life - Ernaux melds history, feminism, and pop culture with snippets from her own experience since the 1940s, casting her life into sharp relief through a combination of imagery and analysis. The book accumulates as it goes, picking up speed as life accelerates - the 90s b......more

Goodreads review by Jim on June 21, 2023

This book is essentially an autobiography structured around a chronology of French history, politics and societal change from WW II to the present. What follows is a summary rather than a review. While I avoid spoilers related to the author’s personal life, I really have to say SPOILERS FOLLOW. The......more

Goodreads review by Banu on February 08, 2021

müthiş, müthiş bir kitap. uzun süredir bu kadar etkilendiğim bir şey olmamıştı. otobiyografik ama anlatım tarzıyla değil. kişisel ama inanılmaz politik. neyi neden yaptığını açıklıyor ama nasıl bu kadar ustalıkla yapabildiğine akıl sır erdiremiyoruz. 1940'lardan 2010'lara kadarki değişimin fotoğraflar......more

Goodreads review by Barry on June 11, 2019

I was in a bookshop in Cork city and chatting with one of the managers I know and I asked if anything of worth had actually been published in the last year. He said not really except for one thing. That ended up being this book. He told me to read the first page, which I did, and I was immediately s......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on April 01, 2020

I couldn't decide between a 3 and a 5 rating. This book took me so long to read because it never grabbed me, but it had moments of such poignancy and beauty. I do think it's a great book even if pages passed without making an impression. I would only recommend this to people who are interested in fo......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List