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Joanna Biggs · The Palimpsest Sensation: Annie Ernaux’s Gaze · LRB 21 October 2021

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Ernaux hasn’t written about her life in a neat this-then-that sort of way. Reading her is like getting to know a...

Vol. 43 No. 20 · 21 October 2021 The Palimpsest Sensation Joanna Biggs Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 5191 words Exteriors by Annie Ernaux , translated by Tanya Leslie . Fitzcarraldo, 74 pp., £8.99, September 2021, 978 1 913097 68 4 Show More Show More A t ​ the end of the Catacombs, having walked among the bones of six million Parisians, you come to a single gravestone. Somewhere in the ossuary are the remains of Racine, Charlotte Corday, Robespierre and Montesquieu, yet the only monument is to Françoise Gillain, who, you discover, died in 1821 after s

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