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An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother, and of both women's strength and resiliency. "I Remain in Darkness" recounts Annie's attempts first to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent. "I Remain in Darkness" is a new high water mark for Ernaux, surging with...
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"For half a century, the French writer Annie Ernaux has transgressed the boundaries of what stories are considered worth telling, what subjects worth exploring. In this probing meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a ubiquitous feature of modern life that has received scant attention in literature. Recording her visits to a store near Paris for over a year, she captures the world that exists within its...
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"Jean Guéhenno's Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in Paris and a bitter commentary on literary life in those years, it has also been called "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice" (Caroline Moorehead, Wall Street Journal). Here, David Ball provides not only the first English-translation of this important historical...
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2020.
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"Written during the years of France's occupation by the Nazis, Jean Giono's Occupation Journal reveals the inner workings of one of France's great literary minds during the country's darkest hour. A renowned writer and committed pacifist throughout the 1930s and 1940s - a conviction that resulted in his imprisonment before and after the Occupation - Giono spent the war in the town of Manosque in Provence, where he wrote, corresponded with other writers,...
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Distributed by W.W. Norton
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2008
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English
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"For decades it has been known that Marguerite Duras kept four notebooks in a blue closet in her country home in France. But only now do readers and critics have the chance both to savor this new material and to understand its significance. For in these notebooks, kept between 1943 and 1949, are the first versions of Duras's most famous works, the true stories behind The Lover, The War, and several other classics." "An immediate bestseller in France,...
17) Wartime diary
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University of Illinois Press
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2009.
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English
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The author reveals her wartime affair with Jacques Bost and her other personal relationships that threatened to overturn traditional views of her life and work.
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La Coopérative
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[2019]
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Français
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"Dès la parution de son OEuvre poétique en 2000, Béatrice Douvre (22 avril 1967 - 19 juillet 19941), qui n'aura publié de son vivant que quelques dizaines de textes dans des revues, a été reconnue comme l'une des personnalités marquantes de sa génération. Ses poèmes sont hantés par le mal dont elle souffrait, l'anorexie, contre lequel elle ne cessa de lutter jusqu'à sa mort, à vingt-sept ans. Durant les six derniers mois de sa vie, Béatrice...