L'autrice sembra essere sempre in grado di identificare le forme mentis dei genitori anche in diverse situazioni e anche a distanza di anni. I explained twenty-five lines – referenced by number – taken from Balzac’s novel Le Père Goriot to a class of sixth-formers from the maths stream. Okuduklarım arasında en sevdiğim Annie Ernaux kitabı olmadı belki ama artık şunu söyleyebilirim bence: şu kadına bir Nobel verin! An affecting portrait of a man whose own peasant upbringing typified the adage that a child should never be better educated than his parents.

Norma: escapar siempre a la mirada crítica de los otros, siendo muy educado, no expresando opinión alguna, controlando minuciosamente los estados de ánimo que pueden ponerte en evidencia. The attraction was the intellectual reflection on the limits of writing – particularly when one tries to capture somebody else’s identity.A forma como Annie relata a sua relação com o pai é muito objetiva e distante, o que, nessa caso, não me cativou tanto. I take it as non-fiction too but doing that, I read it with the assumption that she aimed at accuracy and didn’t invent anything that’s written. Mas Annie Ernaux optou por nada omitir como se necessitasse de castigar-se a si própria com as recordações e simultaneamente abalar o leitor. Terminei de pôr em dia a herança que tive de depositar na soleira do mundo burguês e culto quando nele entrei.

Porque esas formas de vida eran las nuestras, y casi podía considerarse felicidad, pero también lo eran las humillantes barreas de nuestra condición.if i were to judge a country based on its books, i would assume that France is draped in perpetual winter. Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires. More than that, it acknowledges how much her father (and perhaps Ernaux herself) are influenced by place, and the roots they both come from.