I Will Write To Avenge My People : The Nobel Lecture - Annie Ernaux

I Will Write To Avenge My People : The Nobel Lecture - Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux

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  • Pages · 48 pages
  • Publication Date · 04/07/2023
  • Genre · Memoirs
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`I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young�woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her�diary, giving a name to her purpose in life as a writer.�She returns to them in her stirring defence of literature�and of political writing in her Nobel Lecture, delivered�in Stockholm on 7 December 2022. To write of her own�life, she asserts, is to `shatter the loneliness of experiences�endured and repressed'; to mine individual experience is�to find collective emancipation. Ernaux's speech is a bold�assertion of the capacity of writing to give people a sense�of their own worth, and of one writer's commitment to�bearing witness to life, its joys and its injustices.

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