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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 12 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Anna Bentinck. |
| Summary |
The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present-even projections into the future-photos, books, songs, radio, television, and decades of advertising and headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and written notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the time, slogans, brands, and names for ever-proliferating objects are given a voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective. On its 2008 publication in France, The Years came as a surprise. Although Ernaux had, for years, been hailed as a beloved bestselling and award-winning author, The Years was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir written by entire generations and a story of generations telling a very personal story. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Ernaux, Annie, 1940-
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Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Strayer, Alison L., translator.
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Bentinck, Anna, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781974974726 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1974974723 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12449430 |
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