A Man's Place: Annie Ernaux

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Làm sao để có thể tường tận được những dằn xé của người bố về xuất thân của mình, về nỗi khao khát được trở thành một người trong cái cộng đồng đã chối ông mà không có sự quan tâm đến những điều nhỏ nhặt đối với người mà mình yêu thương? Annie Ernaux’s father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. It is that sort of writing through selected facts and details which makes one feels as if one is moving away from the subject, one is freeing oneself from it, in this case, the subject is her father, the skeleton of the book takes over and ideas seem to develop of their own accord. There may be another perspective too, we keep on stacking repositories of memories throughout our life, with older ones getting diminished with time.

More than that, it acknowledges how much her father (and perhaps Ernaux herself) are influenced by place, and the roots they both come from. Ernaux could only achieve this through a State scholarship she had received, but his pride led them to keep those details quiet.Talvez isso tenha feito com que eu demorasse muito tempo para escrever essa resenha, como se eu precisasse entender o que aquelas poucas páginas deixaram em mim. Now I have finished unearthing the legacy which I had to leave at the door when I entered the educated, bourgeois world. Ma qui, nelle pagine di Annie Ermeaux, siamo ben oltre la vergogna: la figlia sente di far parte di un altro mondo e un’altra epoca, che non ha più nulla da spartire con il medioevo del padre. His father discovered the world through an army in Paris wherein the uniform provided a sense of equality among his companions from all over France.

The first half of the book has a downright naturalistic slant: the hard work, the austerity of life, the impossibility to enjoy.La scrittrice di Lillebonne cerca il senso delle occasioni perdute, il dolore del rimpianto, quel che di inespresso che è nel cambiamento, il volto rivelato nell'eredità personale. Algunas citas interesantes aquí y allá, pero nada que vaya a quedar en la memoria, al menos para mí.

No conseguía concentrarme en la lectura, al llegar a alguna página de ese libro mi padre ya no viviría. De fato, a vida burguesa propiciada pelo veloz desenvolvimento no pós-guerra leva a uma grande transformação da sociedade, embora não alcance a todos; e quando alcance, pode se traduzir em vidas em condições precárias. No início, senti que faltava tristeza, dor e transbordava revolta e crítica à classe social de agricultores e operários na qual tinha nascido. I know a family with a similar situation, they clearly love one another but the parents feel alienated from their highly academic sons. Annie Ernaux climbed up the social ladder and landed in the academic middle-class world through school.

Babamın Yeri de yine babasıyla küçük, belki önemsiz ve sıradan bile denebilecek anıları üzerinden bir kuşağa, toplumun dönüşümüne, o dönüşümün izlerine baktığı bir eser Ernaux’nun. He was ashamed at times of his limited education and just wanted all of his life when being with others to apparently fit in and not to rock the boat or to put his foot in his mouth. Un relato bastante corto el cual está destinado básicamente a recordar al padre de la autora, Annie Ernaux (1940), mediante un texto autobiográfico. I had similar reservations while reading Joan Didion's "Blue Nights", the feeling that intense grief and deeply personal regret, even when beautifully expressed, should be kept private. Literature will be a way to explore the complexity of her feelings towards her father, her family background and her change of social class.

And here, what Ernaux shows beautifully is the difference of attitude towards life and a total lack of entitlement on her parents’ part. Tanya Leslie was the first translator of Annie Ernaux into English and translated a number of her works, including A Woman’s Story (1991), A Man’s Place (1992), Simple Passion (1993), Shame (1998), I Remain in Darkness (1999) and Happening (2001). Thực sự thì tôi đã đọc cuốn tiểu thuyết mỏng này cách đây 6 năm, khi nó vừa được xuất bản, một cuốn sách được viết với sự điềm tĩnh đáng ngạc nhiên khi thực ra đây là một cuốn tiểu thuyết bán tự truyện kể về chính cha của tác giả. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.The men of that generation (and perhaps most generations) operate behind a frosted glass wall that diffuses direct emotional connection. The author also touches upon the inadequacy of language itself to convey our memories, our feelings. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux’s cold observation in A Man’s Place reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life.