The Years Annie Ernaux Alison Strayer by Annie Ernaux, Alison Strayer 9781609807870, 1609807871 instant download after payment.

Autobiography is given a new form, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective, in Annie Ermaux’s genre-bending masterpiece.  Translated by Alison L Strayer.

The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising, and news headlines. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for ever-proliferating objects are given voice. The author’s voice continually dissolves and re-emerges as Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity.

Though Annie Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, The Years was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir "written" by entire generations and a story of generations telling a very personal story.

"The Years is an earnest, fearless book, a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism, for our period of absolute commodity fetishism."   -   Edmund White, The New York Times Book Review

Annie Ernaux is a French writer.  She won the Prix Renaudot in 1984 for her book La Place, an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father and her experiences growing up in a small town in France, and her subsequent process of moving into adulthood and away from her parents' place of origin.