by Annie Ernaux · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518469682
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«Die Jahre» is the autobiography of Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize in Literature 2022, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback (255 pages, in German).
An autobiographical account that traces the life of Annie Ernaux and her generation between 1941 and 2006 through photographs, diaries, songs, advertisements and press headlines. Ernaux fuses individual and collective memory, dispenses with the «I» in favour of an impersonal «we» and paints a portrait of post-war French society.
German edition number 4968 of Suhrkamp Taschenbuch; the original work, «Les Années» (2008), was translated from French by Sonja Finck.
For readers of memoirs, French literature and social narrative; also a common choice for reading groups.
Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory". Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology.
