I think today we are all to some extent moving outside our frontiers. I myself don´t know where my German identity ends and where the Brazilian one begins. And when we aren´t emigrants by ascendance, descendance or destiny, we seek the experience of living in other countries, as you did.
She has such an alert, intelligent way of looking!
Agreed. The most personal reply came from James Salter. In his letter, he wrote about his experience being in nominal charge of security at a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippines in 1946. "There were perhaps a hundred or so prisoners in worn-out clothes, deeply burnt by the sun, living in tents, and their sergeants had them as neat as cadets, their area was immaculate. They marched off to work in the morning as none of our men did." Salter, at one point, anyway, was considered by some to be America's leading man of letters. I'm curious if he was ever nominated for the Nobel.
Am I the only one who thinks there is similarity between Ernaux and Margeurite Duras? Female experience, sparse style, short novels, autobiographical writing (of course, not the case with all of Duras' books).
Dammit, now I remembered how other French woman named Marguerite, Yourcenar, was robbed from her Nobel
You are not alone, there are comments in Swedish media on how this is the Nobel that Duras never received.
Gives me time to read Septology, nice!
Why, did you also have a brief but devastating and all-consuming love affair with a married man that left you fighting for your sanity and made you want to write a book about it? ?
I much prefer Duras as a filmmaker. Yourcenar is an immeasurable lacuna in the history of the Nobel. To think that it took this long to honor a French woman of letters…
I am experiencing Ernaux Envy...
You can easily resize it, do you use a MacBook? If yes, go to Tools, find Adjust Size, and just decrease either the length or the width (the other one will adjust automatically), if you make it smaller, you'll finally be able to post the photo,
