I will write to avenge my people : the Nobel lecture
Ernaux, Annie, 1940-2023
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'I will write to avenge my people'. It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diary, giving a name to her purpose in life as a writer. She returns to them in her stirring defense of literature and of political writing in her Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2022. To write of her own life, she asserts, is to 'shatter the loneliness of experiences endured and repressed; to mine individual experience is to find collective emancipation'. Ernaux's speech is a bold assertion of the capacity of writing to give people a sense of their own worth, and of one writer's commitment to bearing witness to life, its joys and its injustices.
Main title:
I will write to avenge my people : the Nobel lecture / Annie Ernaux ; translated by Alison L. Strayer.
Author:
Ernaux, Annie, 1940-, authorStrayer, Alison L., translator
Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023.
Collation:
40 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781804270707 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
844.914
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
2379274
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