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A conference, which this book is the transcription, is an opportunity for annie ernaux, a return to Yvetot, city where she spent her youth. The speaker draws us quickly the portrait of the city that has known and stored to occasionally do something of his novels. But she does not dwell too anecdotes, if not to make us feel what she lived and who deeply marked: shame associated with social status. The family of Annie Ernaux modest, lived in a certain stress, and good student Annie was brought to patronize students from more affluent backgrounds. At that age the cruel remarks leave traces.
Annie ernaux quickly comes to what it has always been for the most part, the literature. First evoking his thirst to read as a teenager, thirsty difficult to satisfy in the context of the time, "The books have therefore formed very early in the territory of my imagination, my projection in stories and worlds I did not know. Later, I found the manual of life, a mode of employment to which I attached much more confidence than academic speech or speech my parents. I was inclined to think that the reality and truth were in the books, in the literature ". Then by sharing their questions about how to write, its attempts, then the solution it finally find for his own writing. "Generally my wish is to write in literary language of all. It is a choice that could be called political, since it is a way to destroy the hierarchies, to give equal importance meanings to the words, the gestures of the people, whatever their place in society. "
Some pictures of Annie girl Yvetot, an interview with postfacière and a few exchanges with the public, all of which are quite interesting, complete this book without much ambition, but that will allow many admirers of annie ernaux to know a more about the author they like.