The Young Man -

Annie Ernaux

Seven Stories Press

2023

64 páginas

2h 8m

ISBN-13: 9781644213209

The Young Man is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time - together with a sense that she is living her life backwards.

Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the "scandalous girl" she once was, but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing. It was first published in France in 2022.

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3 (Bom)

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.