La Vie extérieure
Paris, Gallimard, (February 28) 2000.
1 vol. (120 x 185 mm) of 130 p., [1], 1, [1], 3 and [1] f. In wrappers.
First edition.
Signed presentation inscription: “Pour Bernard Plessy, ces bouts de la réalité d'aujourd'hui. Annie Ernaux. 2 mars 2000.”
Signed presentation inscription: “Pour Bernard Plessy, ces bouts de la réalité d'aujourd'hui. Annie Ernaux. 2 mars 2000.”
A photograph of a moment, fragmented sequences of a stark reality: more than a diary, La Vie extérieure gathers notes, “traces of time and history, fragments of the text we all write simply by living.” The text begins in April 1993 in the RER at Cergy-Préfecture, as war raged in Bosnia, and ends in November 1999 as the Russians “quietly exterminate the Chechens.”
Publisher’s wraparound band preserved.
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