Writing, the Other Life
Herausgeber: Fort, Pierre-Louis / Übersetzer: Lewis, Sophie; Wynne, Frank; Strayer, Alison L; Simon, Daniel; Schwartz, Ros; Ramadan, Emma
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Writing, the Other Life
Herausgeber: Fort, Pierre-Louis / Übersetzer: Lewis, Sophie; Wynne, Frank; Strayer, Alison L; Simon, Daniel; Schwartz, Ros; Ramadan, Emma
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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A stunningly visual celebration of Annie Ernaux's work—featuring collected writing by critics, journalists, and 24 previously unpublished pieces by the Nobel Prize winner herself—offering a full view of the author's life, writing style, reception by readers, and her thoughts and influence. For fans new to Annie Ernaux and longtime readers, this collection of interviews, critical analysis, and diary excerpts also includes visual material—drawings, photos, and newspaper clippings. Magisterial in scope and size, Annie Ernaux: Writing, The Other Life…mehr
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- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Seven Stories Press
- Seitenzahl: 352
- Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2026
- Englisch
- Gewicht: 367g
- ISBN-13: 9781644214152
- ISBN-10: 1644214156
- Artikelnr.: 69825153
- Verlag: Seven Stories Press
- Seitenzahl: 352
- Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2026
- Englisch
- Gewicht: 367g
- ISBN-13: 9781644214152
- ISBN-10: 1644214156
- Artikelnr.: 69825153
Pierre-Louis Fort
Foreword
Jeanne Cherhal
I am reading / read you[MOU1]
I
“To avenge my people” (Translated by Alison Strayer)
Annie Ernaux
The Tree, 1963 – unpublished
Poems of youth –1962
ARCHIVE: The opening of a novel written in seventh grade
Annie Ernaux
Vocation?, 1999
Writing (I), unpublished excerpts from the journal, 1963-1985
Simone de Beauvoir
Letter, 1974
Jean Roudaut
Postcard, 1974
Simone de Beauvoir
Letter, 1977
Benoîte Groult
Letter, 1981
Annie Ernaux
The Place of the Reader, 1997
Pierre-Louis Fort
A “Place” Apart
Dominique Barbéris
An Art in this Openly Asserted Absence of Art
Nicola Lagioia
A Man’s Place: Reparation and Betrayal
ARCHIVE: Manuscript of La Place (A Man’s Place) and facsimile of the list
of possible titles
Annie Ernaux
“Because the book I write about her must be beautiful or not at all.”
1986 – unpublished
Pierre Desproges
Letter
Patrice Robin
“Truth and Advice”
II
“To Give Form Through Writing” (Translated by Emma Ramadan)
Annie Ernaux
Words Like Stains, 1998-1999 – unpublished
Isabelle Desesquelles
The Fabric of Time
Maya Lavault
Towards and Against Proust
Annie Ernaux
On Proust, 1983-1988 – unpublished
A Prize, 2017
Kyo, 1999; 2006 – unpublished
Annie Ernaux and Frédéric-Yves Jeannet
“Who is this me who travels?” – unpublished interview
Barbara Havercroft
“I’m no fucking plumber!”: Annie Ernaux and Feminisim
Hélène Gestern
We Don’t Write Alone
III
Happening (Translated by Sophie Lewis)
Geneviève Brisac
Happening, Or Twenty Years Later
Nathalie Kuperman
The Dinner
Françoise Gillard
“I Shall Remember”
Annie Ernaux
On Happening, 2000
IV
Cinema, Photography, Theatre (Translated by Emma Ramadan)
Film
Danielle Arbid
Annie, A Punk
Annie Ernaux
“Write” (II), diary extracts, 1991 – unpublished
Anne Coudreuse
The Me in the Mirror
Audrey Diwan
Annie Ernaux – Justness
Photography
Dominique Cabrera
With the Leica
Annie Ernaux
“I Have Cancer in My Right Breast,” 2002-3 – unpublished
Aurélia Aurita
The Uses of Drawing
Isabelle Roussel-Gillet
Facing Photographs, with Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux
“The Stunners” – a Drawing: ‘Les Femmes Qui Rient’ (‘The Laughing Women’)
by Mylène Besson
Theatre
Jeanne Champagne
Finding the Form
Dominique Blanc
Joy and Courage
V
The Years (Translated by Alison Strayer)
Annie Ernaux
The third millennium, 1999 – unpublished
Birthday, 2002 – unpublished
Delphine de Vigan
The Book of a Lifetime
Annie Ernaux and Bernard Desportes
Epistolary dialogues about The Years (December 2007 – February 2008)
Bruno Blanckeman
Du romanesque malgré tout
Annie Ernaux
Writing (III), diary extracts, 2001-7 – unpublished
Alison L. Strayer
Translating The Years: a question of breath
VI
Geographies (Translated by Ros Schwartz)
Annie Ernaux
Yvetot, 1968-2005 – unpublished
Annecy, 1998 – unpublished
Rouen, 2000 – unpublished
Michelle Porte and Pierre-Louis Fort
“Writing that inhabits the other, truly, completely” – unpublished
interview
Joëlle Pagès-Lindon
“Words As Stones”
Lauren Elkin
The City and the Suburb: the “extimate” diaries of Annie Ernaux
Régis Sauder
I Have Loved Living Here. Writing a screenplay with Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux
Speech Given at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, 2014 – unpublished
Tiphaine Samoyault
The New Town
ENGLAND
Élise Hugueney-Léger
The Life of Annie Ernaux’s Writings
Annie Ernaux and Lyn Thomas
“English literature was my real gateway into England” – unpublished
interview
Annie Ernaux
I turned twenty in Finchley, a London suburb – unpublished
TRAVELS
Annie Ernaux
“America day by day,” 1990 – unpublished
Austria, Slovakia, Romania, 1993, 1998 – unpublished
Egypt, 1994 – unpublished
Korea, 1994 – unpublished
Venice, 1982-2009 – unpublished
VII
A Girl’s Story (Translated by Alison Strayer)
Isabelle Charpentier
Readings of A Girl’s Story
Fabrice Thumerel
An Other (Memory): a Girl’s/ Girls’ Stories
Annie Ernaux
“Writing” (IV), excerpts from the journal, 2008-2012
VIII
The Real Without Me and Within (Translated by Frank Wynne)
Auto-Socio-Biography
Françoise Simonet-Tenant
Annie Ernaux and emancipation, or how to find one’s place?
Gisèle Sapiro
An Ethnography of Symbolic Violence
Ivan Jablonka
I, She, We
Nicolas Mathieu
The Most Appropriate, Most Succint Words
Annie Ernaux
Bourdieu: The grief, 2002
“It was something I had to do, a debt,” 2002 – unpublished
School, Teaching and Religion
Annie Ernaux
The Exam, 1971 – unpublished
Véronique Jacob
Annie Ernaux, a ‘classic’ of the classroom.
Annie Ernaux
French Class, 2011
Nathalie Froloff
The Empty Tomb: Religion in the Work of Annie Ernaux
“Within and Without”
Annie Ernaux
The External Life (further), 2000-2001
Alexandre Gefen
Annie Ernaux,Politics
Aurélie Adler
A Girl’s Story: Writing in / with the Gaps of History
Annie Ernaux
With the Smile of Saint-Just, 1988
Europe and the Freedom of Women, 2016
May 1st, Imposter Altert! 2012
Lila, Soror, 2019
Politics and Society, 1981-2013 – unpublished
IX
New Enquiries / Openings / Overtures (Translated by Dan Simon)
Annie Ernaux
The Formentor Prize, 2019
Annie Ernaux
The Memories of Rooms and Other Places, 1989-1998 – unpublished
Annie Ernaux and Pierre-Louis Fort
‘It’s the books that live, not me’ – unpublished interview
A Timeline
Contributors
Pierre-Louis Fort
Foreword
Jeanne Cherhal
I am reading / read you[MOU1]
I
“To avenge my people” (Translated by Alison Strayer)
Annie Ernaux
The Tree, 1963 – unpublished
Poems of youth –1962
ARCHIVE: The opening of a novel written in seventh grade
Annie Ernaux
Vocation?, 1999
Writing (I), unpublished excerpts from the journal, 1963-1985
Simone de Beauvoir
Letter, 1974
Jean Roudaut
Postcard, 1974
Simone de Beauvoir
Letter, 1977
Benoîte Groult
Letter, 1981
Annie Ernaux
The Place of the Reader, 1997
Pierre-Louis Fort
A “Place” Apart
Dominique Barbéris
An Art in this Openly Asserted Absence of Art
Nicola Lagioia
A Man’s Place: Reparation and Betrayal
ARCHIVE: Manuscript of La Place (A Man’s Place) and facsimile of the list
of possible titles
Annie Ernaux
“Because the book I write about her must be beautiful or not at all.”
1986 – unpublished
Pierre Desproges
Letter
Patrice Robin
“Truth and Advice”
II
“To Give Form Through Writing” (Translated by Emma Ramadan)
Annie Ernaux
Words Like Stains, 1998-1999 – unpublished
Isabelle Desesquelles
The Fabric of Time
Maya Lavault
Towards and Against Proust
Annie Ernaux
On Proust, 1983-1988 – unpublished
A Prize, 2017
Kyo, 1999; 2006 – unpublished
Annie Ernaux and Frédéric-Yves Jeannet
“Who is this me who travels?” – unpublished interview
Barbara Havercroft
“I’m no fucking plumber!”: Annie Ernaux and Feminisim
Hélène Gestern
We Don’t Write Alone
III
Happening (Translated by Sophie Lewis)
Geneviève Brisac
Happening, Or Twenty Years Later
Nathalie Kuperman
The Dinner
Françoise Gillard
“I Shall Remember”
Annie Ernaux
On Happening, 2000
IV
Cinema, Photography, Theatre (Translated by Emma Ramadan)
Film
Danielle Arbid
Annie, A Punk
Annie Ernaux
“Write” (II), diary extracts, 1991 – unpublished
Anne Coudreuse
The Me in the Mirror
Audrey Diwan
Annie Ernaux – Justness
Photography
Dominique Cabrera
With the Leica
Annie Ernaux
“I Have Cancer in My Right Breast,” 2002-3 – unpublished
Aurélia Aurita
The Uses of Drawing
Isabelle Roussel-Gillet
Facing Photographs, with Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux
“The Stunners” – a Drawing: ‘Les Femmes Qui Rient’ (‘The Laughing Women’)
by Mylène Besson
Theatre
Jeanne Champagne
Finding the Form
Dominique Blanc
Joy and Courage
V
The Years (Translated by Alison Strayer)
Annie Ernaux
The third millennium, 1999 – unpublished
Birthday, 2002 – unpublished
Delphine de Vigan
The Book of a Lifetime
Annie Ernaux and Bernard Desportes
Epistolary dialogues about The Years (December 2007 – February 2008)
Bruno Blanckeman
Du romanesque malgré tout
Annie Ernaux
Writing (III), diary extracts, 2001-7 – unpublished
Alison L. Strayer
Translating The Years: a question of breath
VI
Geographies (Translated by Ros Schwartz)
Annie Ernaux
Yvetot, 1968-2005 – unpublished
Annecy, 1998 – unpublished
Rouen, 2000 – unpublished
Michelle Porte and Pierre-Louis Fort
“Writing that inhabits the other, truly, completely” – unpublished
interview
Joëlle Pagès-Lindon
“Words As Stones”
Lauren Elkin
The City and the Suburb: the “extimate” diaries of Annie Ernaux
Régis Sauder
I Have Loved Living Here. Writing a screenplay with Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux
Speech Given at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, 2014 – unpublished
Tiphaine Samoyault
The New Town
ENGLAND
Élise Hugueney-Léger
The Life of Annie Ernaux’s Writings
Annie Ernaux and Lyn Thomas
“English literature was my real gateway into England” – unpublished
interview
Annie Ernaux
I turned twenty in Finchley, a London suburb – unpublished
TRAVELS
Annie Ernaux
“America day by day,” 1990 – unpublished
Austria, Slovakia, Romania, 1993, 1998 – unpublished
Egypt, 1994 – unpublished
Korea, 1994 – unpublished
Venice, 1982-2009 – unpublished
VII
A Girl’s Story (Translated by Alison Strayer)
Isabelle Charpentier
Readings of A Girl’s Story
Fabrice Thumerel
An Other (Memory): a Girl’s/ Girls’ Stories
Annie Ernaux
“Writing” (IV), excerpts from the journal, 2008-2012
VIII
The Real Without Me and Within (Translated by Frank Wynne)
Auto-Socio-Biography
Françoise Simonet-Tenant
Annie Ernaux and emancipation, or how to find one’s place?
Gisèle Sapiro
An Ethnography of Symbolic Violence
Ivan Jablonka
I, She, We
Nicolas Mathieu
The Most Appropriate, Most Succint Words
Annie Ernaux
Bourdieu: The grief, 2002
“It was something I had to do, a debt,” 2002 – unpublished
School, Teaching and Religion
Annie Ernaux
The Exam, 1971 – unpublished
Véronique Jacob
Annie Ernaux, a ‘classic’ of the classroom.
Annie Ernaux
French Class, 2011
Nathalie Froloff
The Empty Tomb: Religion in the Work of Annie Ernaux
“Within and Without”
Annie Ernaux
The External Life (further), 2000-2001
Alexandre Gefen
Annie Ernaux,Politics
Aurélie Adler
A Girl’s Story: Writing in / with the Gaps of History
Annie Ernaux
With the Smile of Saint-Just, 1988
Europe and the Freedom of Women, 2016
May 1st, Imposter Altert! 2012
Lila, Soror, 2019
Politics and Society, 1981-2013 – unpublished
IX
New Enquiries / Openings / Overtures (Translated by Dan Simon)
Annie Ernaux
The Formentor Prize, 2019
Annie Ernaux
The Memories of Rooms and Other Places, 1989-1998 – unpublished
Annie Ernaux and Pierre-Louis Fort
‘It’s the books that live, not me’ – unpublished interview
A Timeline
Contributors