This month we will be reading
The Years
by Annie Ernaux

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022
Translated by Alison L. Strayer

"Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work, The Years is
a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions
past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television,
advertising and news headlines. Annie Ernaux invents a form that is subjective and
impersonal, private and communal, and a new genre – the collective autobiography –
in order to capture the passing of time. At the confluence of autofiction and
sociology, The Years is ‘a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media
domination and consumerism’ (New York Times), a monumental account of
twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman."
(Fritzcarraldo Editions)

240 pages, Fritzcarraldo Editions, ©Annie Ernaux 2008, ©Alison L. Strayer 2017
EXTRA: You might also be interested in the documentary
The Super 8 Years (movie release date: December 2022)
Annie Ernaux says about the film: “In re-viewing our super 8 films, shot between
1972 and 1981, it occurred to me that they comprised not only a family archive but a
testimony to the pastimes, lifestyle and aspirations of a social class in the decade
after 1968. I wanted to incorporate these silent images into a story which combined
the intimate with the social and with history, to convey the taste and color of those
years.”

Read Marinell Haegelin's review (2 1/2 stars) on KinoCritics

http://www.kinocritics.com/film_review.php?f=3624

We hope you will join us!