Exteriors
46.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s brief observations from Parisian suburban public space — supermarkets, metro, shopping centres — that together form a sociological portrait of everyday life. Minimal prose and sharp class observation: a formal experiment and a genuinely illuminating document from the 2022 Nobel laureate.
Getting Lost
50.00 ₾The unexpurgated diary kept during the affair described in Simple Passion — the full, raw record of Annie Ernaux’s obsession with a married Soviet diplomat, kept back from publication for decades. Where Simple Passion is shaped retrospectively, this is the unmediated, unflinching experience itself.
I Remain in Darkness
46.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s diary of her mother’s Alzheimer’s decline and death — brief, precise entries that record physical and emotional detail without sentimentality. A literary act of bearing witness: one of the most honest accounts of watching a parent dissolve, from the 2022 Nobel laureate.
The Possession
40.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s intense, precise account of jealousy — the disturbing way her ex-partner’s new relationship reorganised her perception of reality. Unflinching sociological examination of possession, identity, and the structures of love: concentrated and analytically unsparing.
A Woman’s Story – WINNER of the 2022 NOBEL PRIZE in LITERATURE
46.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s tribute to her mother — from rural Normandy poverty to lower-middle-class respectability, to Alzheimer’s erasure. Written with love, frustration, and the specific pain of watching a strong woman dissolve: a meditation on class, identity, and the impossibility of truly knowing a parent.
I Will Write to Avenge My People – WINNER of the 2022 NOBEL PRIZE in LITERATURE The Nobel Lecture
30.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s Nobel Prize lecture — a powerful account of her literary mission, her working-class origins, and her conviction that literature is a form of social justice. A brief but essential statement of artistic purpose from one of our most important writers.
The Young Man
40.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s crystalline account of a relationship with a man thirty years younger — examining not romance but the experience of seeing yourself through youth’s eyes, and reckoning with age, desire, and the social meanings attached to a woman’s body. Brief, precise, and characteristically direct.
Shame
46.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s account of a childhood witnessing and the shame that shaped her entire sense of self — moving between personal memory and sociological analysis of class, aspiration, and Catholic guilt. Formally sophisticated and emotionally unsparing from the 2022 Nobel laureate.
Simple Passion – Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature
35.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s account of a consuming obsession — a year during which everything was reorganised around a married man’s visits. Precise, sociological, and formally perfect: an examination of desire as mental state rather than romance, from the 2022 Nobel laureate at her most concentrated.
Happening
40.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s spare, unflinching account of her illegal abortion in France in 1963 — written with autobiographical directness and extraordinary moral courage. A testimony that refuses sentimentality and demands confrontation with the reality of living without bodily autonomy, from the 2022 Nobel laureate.
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