by Annie Ernaux · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070377220
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«La Place» is the autobiographical account by French writer Annie Ernaux, published by Folio in 1986 in paperback (114 pages, in French).
The account reconstructs, from the father's death, the life of a worker turned small shopkeeper and the distance that education and language opened between him and his daughter. Annie Ernaux turns this family material into a reflection on social class and memory.
The work won the Prix Renaudot in 1984. The edition belongs to the Folio 1722 collection. Annie Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022.
Recommended for readers of memoirs and French literature interested in social inequalities and family ties.
Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory". Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology.
