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"For half a century, the French writer Annie Ernaux has transgressed the boundaries of what stories are considered worth telling, what subjects worth exploring. In this probing meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a ubiquitous feature of modern lif...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven, CT : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English French |
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A Margellos world republic of letters book
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"For half a century, the French writer Annie Ernaux has transgressed the boundaries of what stories are considered worth telling, what subjects worth exploring. In this probing meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a ubiquitous feature of modern life that has received scant attention in literature. Recording her visits to a store near Paris for over a year, she captures the world that exists within its massive walls. Through Ernaux's eyes, the superstore emerges as "a great human meeting place, a spectacle"--a flashy, technologically advanced incarnation of the ancient marketplace where capitalism, cultural production, and class converge, dictating our rhythms of desire. With her relentless powers of observation, Ernaux takes the measure of a place we thought we knew, calling us to question the experiences we overlook and to gaze more deeply into ordinary life."-- |
| Item Description: | Originally published in France as 'Regarde les lumières, mon amour' by ̀̀Editions du Seuil 2014. |
| Carrier Form: | 81 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780300268218 0300268211 |
| Index Number: | PQ2665 |
| CLC: | K835.655.6 |
| Call Number: | K835.655.6/E712-7 |