A man's place

R$ 92,90

Sinopse

Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation in A Man's Place reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France. Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires.

Participantes

Autor: Annie Ernaux

Autor

ANNIE ERNAUX

(França, 1940) foi laureada com o prêmio máximo da literatura mundial por conta da "coragem e precisão clínica" de obras avessas à invenção, que exploram o limite da experiência como ferramenta artística. Quem abre os livros de Annie, encontra o que ela própria define como "escrita plana", um texto despido de ornamentos e sentimentalismos, histórias que transitam entre o romance, o relato e o diário, que emergem do particular e dão sentido ao universal, e que, nas palavras da Academia Sueca, revelam "as raízes, estranhamentos e repressões coletivas da memória pessoal".