Description
In this searing autobiographical account, a young woman in 1960s France confronts an unplanned pregnancy in a society where reproductive choice is restricted and shame is pervasive. Drawing on the journals she kept at the time, she revisits the fear, isolation, and determination that shaped those months, while examining the class expectations and gendered power structures surrounding her experience. Decades later, the act of writing becomes both an excavation of memory and a search for language capable of transforming private suffering into shared understanding. Spare, unsentimental, and emotionally incisive, the book exemplifies Ernaux’s groundbreaking fusion of personal testimony and social history.
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mass_market
Gallimard
Published Jan 1, 2001
ISBN: 9782070419234
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Details
First Published
2000
Language
fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for L'Événement by Annie Ernaux.