The Possession
64 pages
|Published: 1 Sep 2002
|Editions
|Details
This edition
ISBN: 9781644213551
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 9 February 2023
Description
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city—the whole world—with a person you may never have met.”
These first words set the framework for The Possession, a striking portrait of a woman after a love affair has ended. Annie Ernaux pulls the reader through every step of jealousy, of a woman’s need to know who has replaced her in a lost beloved’s life. Ernaux’s writing, characteristically gorgeous in its precision, depicts the all too familiar human tendency to seek control and certainty after rejection.”
“The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city—the whole world—with a person you may never have met.”
These first words set the framework for The Possession, a striking portrait of a woman after a love affair has ended. Annie Ernaux pulls the reader through every step of jealousy, of a woman’s need to know who has replaced her in a lost beloved’s life. Ernaux’s writing, characteristically gorgeous in its precision, depicts the all too familiar human tendency to seek control and certainty after rejection.”
