The Possession by Annie Ernaux
Published in the UK for the first time,The Possessionis a striking meditation on jealousy and a major work by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.‘Reading her is like getting to know a friend, the way they tell you about themselves over long conversations that sometimes take years, revealing things slowly, looping back to some parts of their life over and over, hardly mentioning others’
— Joanna Biggs, London Review of Books
‘Annie Ernaux is one of my favourite contemporary writers, original and true. Always after reading one of her books, I walk around in her world for months.’
— Sheila Heti, author of Alphabetical Diaries
‘Ernaux has inherited de Beauvoir’s role of chronicler to a generation.’
— Margaret Drabble, New Statesman
‘Across the ample particularities of over forty years and twenty-one books, almost all short, subject-driven memoirs, Ernaux has fundamentally destabilized and reinvented the genre in French literature.’
— Audrey Wollen, The Nation
‘I find her work extraordinary.’
— Eimear McBride, author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
‘Annie Ernaux writes like no other of how jealousy brings us face to face with a doppelgänger that lives the life we think we should be living. In its searing exploration of jealousy’s assault on sanity and identity, The Possession frees us from the shame and isolation of our own obsessions.’
— Terri Apter, author of Difficult Mothers
Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man’s Place and A Woman’s Story, have become contemporary classics in France. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781804271490 |
| ISBN 10 | 1804271497 |
| Title | The Possession |
| Author | Annie Ernaux |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Year published | 2025-05-22 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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