Exteriors

Exteriors

91 pages
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Published: 1 Dec 1993
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Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Publication date: 1 January 2021

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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment. Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux's books – the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her.