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“Annie Ernaux: the blueprint is not a shrinkage”

2022-12-27T18:14:04.863Z


TRIBUNE - The young novelist Pierre Adrian explains why he likes the dryness of the style of the Nobel Prize. A writer's language goes beyond his intentions, argues the author.


Aged 31,

Pierre Adrian

won the Deux-Magots prize and the François-Mauriac prize from the French Academy for his first novel, “La Piste Pasolini” (Éd. des Equateurs, 2015).

He is also the winner of the Roger-Nimier prize for "Simple souls" (Éd. des Equateurs, 2017) and the Jean-René Huguenin prize for

his latest novel "Que revenir those who are far away"

(Gallimard, 2022).

In my latest novel, a young woman reads Annie Ernaux.

It was before she received the Nobel Prize for Literature and I had not chosen by chance to place a book by Annie Ernaux on the bedside table of a character, wanting to signify by that what she represented now for a generation of women.

Last week, at the Relay station in Brest, it was the pocket of the

Years

that a young customer caught on the fly before boarding the train for Paris.

At the end of 2022, after the success of the

Young Man

and his Nobel, Annie Ernaux is on everyone's lips.

Of course, a lot has been written about…

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Source: lefigaro

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