Possession, The, Annie Ernaux
Possession, The, Annie Ernaux
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Possession, The

Author: Annie Ernaux

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/11/2019


Synopsis

Self-regard, in the works of Annie Ernaux, is always an excruciatingly painful and exact process. Here, she revisits the peculiar kind of self-fulfillment possible when we examine ourselves in the aftermath of a love affair, and sometimes, even, through the eyes of the lost beloved.

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 Ilse

Nobel prize in literature 2022 "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory" The other woman The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never me......more

‘To give a title to the moments of one’s life, the way one does at school for literary passages, is perhaps a way to master them?’ When I first encountered Annie Ernaux I was impressed and eager for more, but after the raw intensity that is The Possession I would perch beside her throne and hiss like......more

Goodreads review by Luna

Me muero, socia.......more