Social shame, female emancipation, male awareness … Nearly 200 readers of all ages and Horizon have told “world” what the works of the one who has been rewarded for the Nobel Prize for literature for them .
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Learning the news on October 6, they were moved. Some cried. For a literary prize, it was the first time. But decorating Annie Ernaux, 82, with the Nobel Prize for Literature is, in a way, to recognize their discreet lives. “It’s a little bit of ours thanks to her,” says Martine Charreyron, 65, retired civil servant in the Jura. Like her, nearly 200 readers of the world, of all ages and horizon, responded to our call for testimonies on what her books represent for them. Pages that helped them find their place. Words which, for fifty years, have accompanied them in intimate and collective crossings.
“It is a bit of seeing the light my grandmother and her doubtful French, my friends and their complicated love stories, my old Caissières colleagues”, feels Lucie V. 25 years old, consultant in Paris. Originally from an “average” family of the East, the young woman preferred to “lie, dream someone else to be like those that [she] frequented”, the impression that her life “deserved to be romanticized “. Annie Ernaux’s books taught him to “accept”, “see the beautiful in banality, in” Beauf “, in oral French faults, fatty dishes, rap”.
The writer, who participated in popularizing the expression of class defector – which offered to concerns to think of each other, but whose outline annoys it – has put words on this “troubled fog”, the ‘”tearing” of social migration. Anthony Perronnet, 28 -year -old consultant, found “comfort, tenderness, legitimacy”, while he felt “rejected by [s] two worlds”, “hatred” towards his urban friends “to have received too much “, to his parents not to” have given him enough “. In the middle, Annie Ernaux as “a friend in this solitude crevasse”.
Laura Leblanc, 31 years old, associate of letters living in Paris, professor in college in Argenteuil, says, “the shame of having been ashamed of those who [gave her everything: love, confidence “. And his “desire for social elevation” born from his readings, recognizing in empty cupboards “the inability of [s] a mother, cleaning lady, to master the subjunctive, the absence of books, the way of eating [s] es parents “.
By recognizing in the place his own father -illiterate worker, peasant in his native country -, Bina A., 38, clerk in Seine -Saint -Denis having arrested the school in second, understood the tensions born of His marriage to an automotive business director, his feeling of having “betrayed” his own. Daughter of a “silent mother forced to silence” – deceased -, Audrey Pellarin, French teacher, found a “literary mother who [l] ‘authorized to speak”.
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