A Woman's Story
内容简介
Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris."
She explores the bond between mother and daughter, tenuous and unshakable at once, the alienating worlds that separate them, and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love. In this quietly powerful tribute, Ernaux attempts to do her mother the greatest justice she can: to portray her as the individual she was. She writes, "I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."
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作者简介
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, ANNIE ERNAUX is considered by many to be France’s most important literary voice. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for “A Man's Place” and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for “The Years”, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Her other works include “Getting Lost,” “Exteriors,” “A Girl's Story”, “A Woman's Story,” “The Possession,” “Simple Passion,” “Happening,” “I Remain in Darkness,” “Shame,” “A Frozen Woman,” and “A Man's Place.”
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读书文摘
我的母亲出生在下层社会，她一直想改变自己的社会地位。我按照母亲的愿望进入了这个掌握语言与思想的世界，我必须将她的故事写出来，为的是让我在这个世界里不觉得太孤单和虚假。 我再也听不到她的声音。是她，以及她的语言、她的双手、她的姿势，她走路和微笑的习惯，把现在我所是的妇女和曾经我所是的女孩联系起来。我失去了与我所来自的世界的最后一根纽带。
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