The Years

Considered by many to be Ernaux’s defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television advertising and news headlines. The iconic French memoirist invents a form that is subjective and impersonal, private and communal, and a new genre – the collective autobiography – in order to capture the passing of time. The Years is a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted though the life of one woman.

“A Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism” – New York Times

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