young man

Le Jeune homme

* The latest work by Anne Ernö, the 2022 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, is published in Chinese for the first time
* Breaking the final taboo, telling the story of a scandalous love affair and overcoming a lifelong shame
* A middle-aged woman's declaration in the face of class discrimination, sexism, and age discrimination
* Short and powerful, full of staying power, as sharp as a scalpel
--Content Introduction--
In her fifties, she began dating a man thirty years her junior. He had left his girlfriend, the same age, and fell in love with her with unprecedented passion. But this intimate interlude was also political, subjecting them to constant leer in the streets, restaurants, and beaches. She became the "scandal girl" of her youth, but now without shame, feeling a sense of relief. At some point, he could no longer tolerate her former beauty, and she was simply repeating her past. Although "he was her angel, evoking the past and perpetuating it," what meaning did this hold for the future?
--Media Recommendation---
* Erno "exposes with courage and clinical acumen the roots, divisions, and collective constraints of individual memory," and she "consistently examines from diverse perspectives the profound disparities in life along gender, language, and class lines."
——Swedish Academy Nobel Prize in Literature Committee
* Anne Erno is the queen of the new autobiography. --Times Magazine
*The Young Man is Anne Ernaux's masterpiece, a perfect microcosm. She condenses all her previous books in a dazzlingly beautiful Proustian gesture. -Left Literary Magazine
* The Oedipus complex in world literature has probably never been so fearlessly reduced to its true core. —Süddeutsche Zeitung
* Just a few words, but a huge impact... This slim book completely changed France! - Süddeutsche Zeitung
* The narrative complexity of this work lies in the fact that the author's life theme - rising from the bottom of social status - appears again in the identity of another person... The special literary quality of "Young Man" lies in the author's clever connection with her other works. - West German Radio
* Young Men encapsulates all the themes that are important to Ernö: thoughts on the origins and progress of society, thoughts on being a woman and, once again, thoughts on abortion, which is the core of her book The Event.
——Southwest Radio Germany
* Ernaux has inherited Simone de Beauvoir’s role as chronicler of a generation. —New Statesman

2023-07-31

上海人民出版社

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