Happening
Contributors: Tanya Leslie (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: August 9, 2001
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9781583222560
Subjects: Abortion; Biography: general; French authors; Biography & Autobiography; Abortion & Birth Control; Women; Biography / Autobiography; France; Biography/Autobiography; Ernaux, Annie,; Literary; Literary Criticism & Collections / Essays; 1940-; 20th century; Authors, French; Biography
First sentence: I GOT OFF AT BARBES METRO STATION.
Description: "Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people." "In 1963, Annie Ernaux, twenty-three and single, became pregnant. Forty years later, using her journals of the day, she retraces her experience of the ensuing months. Happening is perhaps Ernaux's most risk-taking and emotionally raw journey yet."--BOOK JACKET.