by Annie Ernaux · Ballantine Books Inc. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780345382542
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«Simple Passion» is Annie Ernaux's autofiction novel, published by Ballantine Books Inc. in paperback (80 pages, in English).
The narrator recalls a two-year relationship with a married man that absorbs her completely: during that time, every gesture and every thought is subordinated to the lover. With dry, precise writing, Ernaux reconstructs surrender, desire and heartbreak, and reflects on the transformation left in someone who has lived an absolute passion.
Originally published as «Passion simple» in 1991; this 1994 English edition is translated by Tanya Leslie.
For readers of literary fiction and autofiction, particularly those interested in contemporary French literature.
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.
