Reading Club – The Years, by Annie Ernaux
Bookings/Information
* Cost of a call to the national landline network
- Booking required. Free admission.
- Maximum of 15 participants.
Spanning the period from 1941 to 2006, *The Years* tells a story that is at once collective and personal, wide-ranging and intimate, covering sixty years in the life of a country and the life of a woman. Through short narrative fragments, and by weaving together photographs, songs, films, objects and events from recent history, Annie Ernaux constructs – rather than a disconcerting autobiography – a recollection of a ‘we’, in an account of what remains as time passes: ‘Everything will fade away in a second […] Neither I nor myself. Language will continue to put the world into words. In conversations around a table on a festive day, we will be nothing more than a name, increasingly faceless, until we disappear into the anonymous crowd of a distant generation.’ Published in 2019, this book confirmed Annie Ernaux as one of the most important voices in French literature of this century. (Bertrand)
THIS ACTIVITY TAKES PLACE EXCLUSIVELY IN PORTUGUESE.
