"I will write to avenge my people." It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diary, giving a name to her purpose in life as a writer. She returns to them in her stirring defense of literature and of political writing in her Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2022. To write of her own life, she asserts, is to "shatter the loneliness of experiences endured and repressed"; to mine individual experience is to find collective emancipation. Ernaux's speech is a bold assertion of the capacity of writing to give people a sense of their own worth, and of one writer's commitment to bearing witness to life, its joys and its injustices.
- Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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Publication date:
20/06/2023
- ISBN: 9781804270707
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Page extent:
48
- Format: Paperback
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