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May 5, 2022 · The Young Man is a short book by the Nobel Prize-winning French writer Annie Ernaux, who recounts her passionate relationship with a much younger man. The book explores themes of age, time, memory, and femininity through fragments of living and reflections on her own youth.
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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.
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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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Sep 12, 2023 · 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...
- Annie Ernaux
- The Young Man
- Seven Stories Press, 2023
- Alison Strayer
Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux recounts her passionate relationship with A., a man 30 years her junior, in this slim but powerful book. She explores how the affair challenges her notions of time, aging, desire, and memory.
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Sep 12, 2023 · 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.
