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I read this book because I recently started a French course and I'd like to read more and gain a better vocabulary and although it was a difficult experience at first, it definitely paid off as I genuinely enjoyed the author's writing. It was enchanting and at traits gruesome in the way it perfectly described the feeling of being a teenager in a world that you don't yet understand, signaling the end of your childhood with the incom of violence and shame. At times I felt like the writer lost herself but in general I truly enjoyed the book, especially as it was one of the first from the author and I coudl relate to her eperience as it was perfectly perfomed as it could be an everyday experience.
Truly a wonderful book.
Truly a wonderful book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Classism
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set in 1952 france, a confessional story detailing how the author worked to make sense of and bridge the world she knew before the day her father tried to kill her mother and what she knew of the world after. includes explorations of collective history, community, social norms, shame, identity, socio economic status, post war, etc. the author performs an “ethnological study” on herself and her memories (and the way shame bridges versions of herself). very clean and clinical style of writing/investigation of self.
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Annie Ernaux excelle dans l’art de mêler autobiographie et analyse sociologique. À partir d’un souvenir d’enfance, elle explore ce sentiment diffus de gêne, qui naît quand on grandit dans un milieu modeste, puis qu’on en sort, sans jamais vraiment savoir où se situer. Elle parvient à mettre des mots sur une émotion difficile à saisir : cette honte sociale sourde, discrète mais tenace. J’ai reconnu dans ces pages ce tiraillement entre l’envie de s’élever et l’embarras ressenti face au regard que l’on porte, parfois malgré soi, sur ses parents ou son passé. L’écriture est limpide, les phrases brèves, précises, et les nombreuses parenthèses introspectives nous placent au plus près de sa pensée — même si leur répétition peut parfois alourdir la lecture. Le titre, La Honte, sonne juste : il ne s’agit pas d’une honte intime mais bien d’une honte sociale, structurante, quasi héréditaire. J’aurais aimé que le livre développe davantage sur ce thème si fort : le sujet aurait largement mérité quelques pages de plus, tant il ouvre de pistes de réflexion.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
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