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A review by notesofacrocodile
Happening by Annie Ernaux
5.0
// "The distress I experience on recalling certain images and on hearing certain words is beyond comparison with what I felt at the time: these are merely literary emotions; in other words they generate the act of writing and justify its veracity."
my first experience with the works of annie ernaux ! some elements of this felt personal and thus touched me deeply. the pain and struggle that ernaux went through back then was clearly too great to be confined to words in a book that she wrote much later, but it is still understood that it was quite a lot for a woman of her age, at that time, and with all the restrictions placed on her by law, by her own family, and by society in general. i will definitely be reading more of her works in the future.
my first experience with the works of annie ernaux ! some elements of this felt personal and thus touched me deeply. the pain and struggle that ernaux went through back then was clearly too great to be confined to words in a book that she wrote much later, but it is still understood that it was quite a lot for a woman of her age, at that time, and with all the restrictions placed on her by law, by her own family, and by society in general. i will definitely be reading more of her works in the future.