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"Naturally I won’t opt for narrative which would mean inventing reality instead of searching for it."
I am a longtime fan of Ernaux's pieces, clever bits of memoir and metafiction that convey her particular experience of a moment in time in a way that simultaneously keeps the reader at a distance and has the reader so immersed that it feels as if one is there. This piece is mostly about what we now call imposter syndrome as experienced by Annie, a middle-class girl from the country (a part that sits at the edge of a city.) When she moves to a private boarding school Annie is thrown into everyday life amongst much posher and more cosmopolitan people. The whole is pretty wonderful. The acknowledgment that language is never able to fully embody truth is food for thought, and also leaves the reader a bit off balance. Close to a 5 but I think I will leave this at 4, though I can't quite articulate why I am docking a star.
I am a longtime fan of Ernaux's pieces, clever bits of memoir and metafiction that convey her particular experience of a moment in time in a way that simultaneously keeps the reader at a distance and has the reader so immersed that it feels as if one is there. This piece is mostly about what we now call imposter syndrome as experienced by Annie, a middle-class girl from the country (a part that sits at the edge of a city.) When she moves to a private boarding school Annie is thrown into everyday life amongst much posher and more cosmopolitan people. The whole is pretty wonderful. The acknowledgment that language is never able to fully embody truth is food for thought, and also leaves the reader a bit off balance. Close to a 5 but I think I will leave this at 4, though I can't quite articulate why I am docking a star.