Exteriors

Zusatztext Exteriors is honest, genuine and skillfully executed. Columbus Dispatch Ernaux's writings walk a tightrope between art and confession, immersing us in a territory bounded on one side by commitment and on the other by desire. Newsday Journal du dehors ( Exteriors ) is the opposite of an intimate diary. It shows a woman observing, without scorn or pity, the world out of which she came . . . . It is the text of a writer for whom the text is, simultaneously, interiority and provocation. Telerama Informationen zum Autor Born in 1940! ANNIE ERNAUX grew up in Normandy! studied at Rouen University! and began teaching high school. From 1977 to 2000! she was a professor at the Centre National d'Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books! in particular A Man's Place and A Woman's Story ! have become contemporary classics in France. She won the prestigious Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place when it was first published in French in 1984. The English edition was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The English edition of A Woman's Story was a New York Times Notable Book. Zusammenfassung WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE In this novel, which takes the form of journal entries made over the course of seven years, Annie Ernaux concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment. She captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of a great city: tortured, chaotic, lyrical, and powerfully alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux's books--the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her.

“Exteriors is honest, genuine and skillfully executed.” –Columbus Dispatch

“Ernaux's writings walk a tightrope between art and confession, immersing us in a territory bounded on one side by commitment and on the other by desire.” –Newsday

“Journal du dehors (Exteriors) is the opposite of an intimate diary. It shows a woman observing, without scorn or pity, the world out of which she came . . . . It is the text of a writer for whom the text is, simultaneously, interiority and provocation.” –Telerama

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In Exteriors Ernaux concentrates, not on the essential details of a relationship with a family member or lover as before, but on ephemeral encounters within the larger circle of one's environment and the hundreds of strangers who inhabit it. Here she captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of a great city: tortured, chaotic, lyrical, and powerfully alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux's books, the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, the first in which she is able to leave her past behind her. The author describes the experience of writing Exteriors this way: "Between 1985 and 1992 I copied down sights and conversations, on the commuter train, in supermarkets, and downtown in the planned community where I live. I think I wanted in this way to hold on to some part of this epoch and to the people one encounters but once, whose existence you briefly touch, disengaging a bit of their turmoil, anger, or pain".

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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In this novel, which takes the form of journal entries made over the course of seven years, Annie Ernaux concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment. She captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of a great city: tortured, chaotic, lyrical, and powerfully alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux's books--the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her.