The Years (Unabridged)
Person: Ernaux, Annie
Year: 2020
Language: English
Duration: 490 min
Expected to be available from: Jun 2, 2024
- Contents:
- The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present - even projections into the future - photos, books, songs, radio, television, and decades of advertising and headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and written notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the time, slogans, brands, and names for ever-proliferating objects are given a voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective. On its 2008 publication in France, The Years came as a surprise. Although Ernaux had, for years, been hailed as a beloved bestselling and award-winning author, The Years was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir written by entire generations and a story of generations telling a very personal story.
Title Information
Title: The Years (Unabridged)
Person: Ernaux, Annie
Publisher : Dreamscape Media
ISBN: 9781974974733
Category: Non-Fiction & Guidebooks, Religion & Philosophy, Biographies & Memories
File size: 484 MB
Format: eAudio Stream
Loan period: 14 days