LE FIGARO.
- Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize for Literature, first French crowned.
What inspires you?
Alice FERNEY
(*).
- At the time of the announcement, it was the amusing surprise to see the predictions confirmed and validated by a prestigious seal the current enthusiasm for a work that has not always been read as it is today today.
I remembered that Annie Ernaux's books were in turn rewarded (
La Place
, Renaudot Prize 1984), downright mocked (
Passion simple
, 1992), almost ignored (
L'Événement
, 2000), that they were sometimes placed in the category of what a Baptiste Liger once called
"the very painful NLBF (new literature of good women)".
The whole past of this diversely received work came back to my mind.
I was old enough to read Annie Ernaux when she was publishing and I experienced these different moments of criticism.
I have a precise memory of the contemptuous polemics around
Passion simple
.
I remember how
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