Description
About the Author
Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary 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. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Reviews
'Acute and immediate, I Remain in Darkness is an unforgettable exploration of love, memory and the journey to loss.'
- Eimear McBride, author of Strange Hotel
'Ernaux writes of memory, of love, of loathing, of disgust, of tenderness; she writes about the frail, leaking, helpless, horrifying body, about the porous self. The narrative was always death. Writing was always an act of betrayal.'
- Nicci Gerrard, The Spectator
'Ernaux's mother died of Alzheimer's disease; like John Bayley's memoir Elegy for Iris, Ernaux's memoir catalogues the deterioration of a once powerful, almost totemic presence, a fall so cataclysmic that it cannot be analyzed or contextualized, only reported. In I Remain in Darkness (its title taken from the last coherent sentence her mother ever wrote) Ernaux abandons her search for a larger truth because, in the face of a loss as profound as that of her mother, all attempts to make sense of it have the feel of artifice.'
- Kathryn Harrison, New York Times Book Review
'A testament to the persistent, haunting, and melancholy quality of memory.'
- New York Times
Awards
Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 (Sweden).
Book Information
ISBN 9781910695975
Author Annie Ernaux
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions
