Simple Passion was a cleverly crafted memoir; Getting Lost is a large chunk of her life and the more interesting version of the affair. Ernaux intends it to be a love story from the beginning, but it’s not. Instead, it’s a study of a woman at her peak desire. In the future. I suspect, the book will become a kind of totem for lovers: a manual to help them find their centre when, like Ernaux, they are lost in love.

With The Years, Testard said Ernaux “invents a form, does something genuinely new with literature; it’s an intersection of the novel and autobiography and non-fiction”. Tartaglione, Nancy (11 September 2021). "Venice Film Festival: 'L'Événement' Wins Golden Lion, 'Hand Of God' Takes Grand Jury Prize, Jane Campion Best Director, Penelope Cruz Best Actress, Maggie Gyllenhaal Best Screenplay – Full List". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021 . Retrieved 11 September 2021. On 6 October 2022, it was announced that Ernaux would be awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature [32] [33] "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". [1] Ernaux is the 16th French writer, and the first Frenchwoman, to receive the literature prize. [32] In congratulating her, the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, said that she was the voice "of the freedom of women and of the forgotten". [32] Her work is uncompromising and written in plain language, scraped clean,” he continued. “And when she with great courage and clinical acuity reveals the agony of the experience of class, describing shame, humiliation, jealousy or inability to see who you are, she has achieved something admirable and enduring.” a b c Romney, Jonathan (21 September 2020). " 'Passion Simple': San Sebastian Review". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 27 October 2020 . Retrieved 5 February 2023.

Translated from French by Tanya Leslie (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021)

Cassivi, Marc (24 May 2022). "Les années filmées d'Annie Ernaux". La Presse. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 6 October 2022. The book is also a bit of a meta-novel. She tells us she is writing the book as therapy to get over him. There's an extended analogy between her obsession with writing a book and trying to make it perfect with the way she tried to make her relationship perfect. Some passages about this: In the UK, independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions has published eight of Ernaux’s books, with another two on the way. Shame will be released next year, as will Ernaux’s latest book Le jeune homme. Many of Ernaux's works have been translated into English and published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and Seven Stories Press. Ernaux is one of the seven founding authors from whom the latter Press takes its name. [31] Political activism [ edit ] Alison Fell and Edward Welch, "Annie Ernaux: Socio-Ethnographer of Contemporary France", Nottingham French Studies, June 2009.

Ernaux escribe esta obra como consecuencia de los efectos provocados por una fuerte pasión (de ahí el título), generada por su relación con un hombre casado, de la que siempre tu Chakraborty wrote: “The quality that distinguishes Ernaux’s writing on sex from others in her milieu is the total absence of shame. Desire in her brings forth more desire, the impulse of death, happiness, and even past trauma, like her abortion, but never humiliation. Reading her is to thoroughly purge yourself of the notion that shame could be a possible outcome of wanting sex.” Quite often I felt I was living out this passion in the same way I would have written a book: the same determination to get every single scene right, the same minute attention to detail. I could even accept the thought of dying providing I had lived this passion through to the very end—without actually def ining “to the very end”—in the same way I could die in a few months’ time after finishing this book.' Verdu, Daniel (6 May 2019). "La escritora Annie Ernaux gana el Premio Formentor". El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 May 2019 . Retrieved 6 May 2019. Rossi, Marie-Laure, Écrire enrégimemédiatique:Marguerite Duras et AnnieErnaux:actricesetspectatricesde lacommunicationde masse. –Paris :L’Harmattan, 2015Semerene, Diego (18 January 2022). " Simple Passion Review: An Un-Impressionistic Look at Living Out Desire". Slant Magazine . Retrieved 5 February 2023. The writing process for her is the healing and separation from intoxication into a more clear-headedness, a reflective state where she can see what happened and fully appreciate that experience without feeling the pain anymore, that way her story does not end in tragedy much like a lot of other stories about this kind of obsession do. Ernaux makes you think about your own romantic entanglements rushing you to be able both to fully dwell in them and have the potential to reach mature freedom from the person that enabled you to experience them.

He had said, “You won’t write a book about me.” But I haven’t written a book about him, neither have I written a book about myself. All I have done is translate into words—words he will probably never read; they are not intended for him—the way in which his existence has affected my life. An offering of a sort, bequeathed to others.' Passion Perfect/ translated by Tanya Leslie. –London :Quartet, 1993. – Translation of Passion simple L’événement. Director: Audrey Diwan. Screenplay by Marcia Romano and Audrey Diwan. Based on the novel by AnnieErnaux. 2021 Komorowska, Agnieszka, Scham undSchrift: Strategien literarischerSubjektkonstitutionbeiDuras, Goldschmidt undErnaux. –Heidelberg :UniversitätsverlagWinter, 2017 [Revised version of the author’s doctoral thesis] Hale, Mike (3 September 1994). " 'Simple Passion' gets to the heart of obsession". Boston Globe. p.71. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022 . Retrieved 6 October 2022– via Newspapers.com.

Other books by Annie Ernaux

Charpentier, Isabelle, Uneintellectuelledéplacée:Enjeuxet usagessociauxdel’œuvred’AnnieErnaux. [Diss.] – Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 1999 McIlvanney,Siobhán, AnnieErnaux: the return to origins.–Liverpool :Liverpool University Press, 2001