The novel of the year, published in France in 2008 and in our country in 2010, is an autobiographical work by the French writer Annie Ernau/, in which she chronologically describes her life path from birth in 1941 to half of the 21st century. century. Upon its release, the novel received a series of highest literary accolades: The Fran 6ucois Mauriac prize, the Marguerite Duras prize, the readers ' prize of the newspaper t Amacl / Amgramme and the European Strega Europeo prize.
This unusual autobiography is written in the third person singular, and the author skillfully interweaves completely intimate stories with historical events in France, Europe and the world. We follow her on vacation on the seashore and while daydreaming about the future in Paris. While her mother is fascinated by the latest wonder of technology – the washing machine – Annie begins to discover her body. The attitude towards the body as an unfathomable mixture of lust, pleasure, shame and pain is a theme that permeates all periods of her life – from the first painful sexual intercourse with an elderly man and the liberating period of her student years to the traumatic illegal abortion, since France legalized the right to abortion only in 1970. So we follow Annie in search of an intimate and also social identity in the face of the emptiness of her marriage, the birth of two sons, the burdens of motherhood, divorce, obsession with a younger lover, until in 2006 she incarnates as a self-confident woman and writer, dancing through memories, looking for such a language that would encompass all the complexity of human existence and preserve pieces of memories from the relentless flood of oblivion.
The final stop of the stage setting could be a photographic portrait of Annie Ernau / at the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature, which she received as the seventeenth woman among 119 laureates " for the courage and surgical sharpness with which she reveals the roots, alienation and collective limitations of personal memory," as noted in the justification. Annie Ernau's opus is 20 books, mostly in the form of short novels and novels, all of which are fed from tiny swirls of intimate memories that merge into the mighty stream of our common history.
Roman Leta , ki je v Franciji izšel leta 2008 in pri nas leta 2010, je avtobiografsko delo francoske pisateljice Annie Ernaux, v katerem kronološko opisuje svojo življenjsko pot od rojstva leta 1940 do začetka 21. stoletja. Roman je po izidu prejel vrsto najvišjih literarnih priznanj: nagrado François Mauriac, nagrado Marguerite Duras, nagrado bralcev časopisa Télégramme in evropsko nagrado Strega Europeo. Ta nenavadna avtobiografija je zapisana v tretji osebi ednine, avtorica pa spretno prepleta povsem intimne zgodbe z zgodovinskimi dogajanji v Franciji, Evropi in svetu. Sledimo ji na počitnice na morski obali in ob sanjarjenju o prihodnosti v Parizu.
Medtem ko se njena mama navdušuje nad najnovejšim čudesom tehnike – pralnim strojem –, pa Annie začne odkrivati svoje telo.
Odnos do telesa kot nedoumljive mešanice sle, užitka, sramu in bolečine je tema, ki prežema vsa obdobja njenega življenja – od prvega bolečega spolnega odnosa s starejšim moškim in osvobajajočega obdobja študentskih let do travmatičnega ilegalnega splava, saj je Francija pravico do splava uzakonila šele leta 1970. Tako sledimo Annie v iskanju intimne in tudi družbene identitete ob praznini njenega zakona, rojstva dveh sinov, bremen materinstva, ločitve, obsedenosti z mlajšim ljubimcem, dokler se leta 2006 ne utelesi kot samozavestna ženska in pisateljica, ki poplesuje skozi spomine in išče takšen jezik, ki bi zaobjel vso kompleksnost človeškega bivanja in ohranil koščke spominov pred neusmiljeno poplavo pozabe.
Poslednja postaja odrske postavitve bi lahko bil fotografski portret Annie Ernaux ob podelitvi Nobelove nagrade za literaturo, ki jo je prejela leta 2022 kot sedemnajsta ženska med dotedanjimi 119 lavreati »za pogum in kirurško ostrino, s katerima razkriva korenine, odtujenost in kolektivne omejitve osebnega spomina,« kot je zapisno v utemeljitvi. Opus Annie Ernaux obsega 20 knjig, večinoma v obliki krajših novel in romanov, ki pa se vse napajajo iz drobnih vrtincev intimnih spominov, ki se zlijejo v mogočnem veletoku naše skupne zgodovine.