I Remain in Darkness – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
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Om bidragsyterne
Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary 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. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
<p>‘Acute and immediate, <em>I Remain in Darkness </em>is an unforgettable exploration of love, memory and the journey to loss.’<br />
— Eimear McBride, author of <em>Strange Hotel</em></p>
<p>‘Ernaux writes of memory, of love, of loathing, of disgust, of tenderness; she writes about the frail, leaking, helpless, horrifying body, about the porous self. The narrative was always death. Writing was always an act of betrayal.’<br />
— Nicci Gerrard, <em>The Spectator</em></p>
<p>‘Ernaux’s mother died of Alzheimer’s disease; like John Bayley’s memoir <em>Elegy for Iris</em>, Ernaux’s memoir catalogues the deterioration of a once powerful, almost totemic presence, a fall so cataclysmic that it cannot be analyzed or contextualized, only reported. In <em>I Remain in Darkness</em> (its title taken from the last coherent sentence her mother ever wrote) Ernaux abandons her search for a larger truth because, in the face of a loss as profound as that of her mother, all attempts to make sense of it have the feel of artifice.’<br />
— Kathryn Harrison, <em>New York Times Book Review</em></p>
<p>‘A testament to the persistent, haunting, and melancholy quality of memory.’<br />
— <em>New York Times</em></p>
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Om bidragsyterne
Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary 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. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.