The Young Man -

Annie Ernaux

Fitzcarraldo Editions

2023

48 páginas

1h 36m

ISBN-13: 9781804270677

In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior - an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the 'scandalous girl' of her youth. When she is with him, she replays scenes she has already lived through, feeling both ageless and closer to death. Laid like a palimpsest on the present, the past's immediacy pushes her to take a decisive step in her writing - producing, in turn, the need to expunge her lover. At once stark and tender, The Young Man is a taut encapsulation of Ernaux's relationship to time, memory and writing.

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Livro curto, sensível e introspectivo, com uma escrita precisa e sem excessos. Apesar da honestidade e da profundidade emocional, não chega a ser uma obra de arte. Uma leitura rápida, mas marcante.