Annie Ernaux
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.93 | 613 Users | 74 Reviews
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| Original Title: | La femme gelée |
| ISBN: | 188836338X (ISBN13: 9781888363388) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. While each of Ernaux's books contain an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, one of Ernaux's early works, concentrates the spotlight piercingly on Annie herself. Mixing affection, rage and bitterness, A Frozen Woman shows us Ernaux's developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the shortened form emerged that has since become her trademark.Specify Of Books A Frozen Woman
| Title | : | A Frozen Woman |
| Author | : | Annie Ernaux |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | October 8th 1996 by Seven Stories Press (first published 1981) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Feminism |
Rating Of Books A Frozen Woman
Ratings: 3.93 From 613 Users | 74 ReviewsCriticism Of Books A Frozen Woman
Rarely does Ernaux repeat herself, and always she has something important to say. Her positions, and stories, may not always be the most popular, but she makes perfect sense to me. She is, in my opinion, one hell of a woman. And a very good writer as well.After having a couple days to think more about what I read, it is obvious to me that Annie was pretty angry at herself for falling into this man-family-homemaker trap that she never ever truly wanted for herself. But she is not a man hater. SheI hate this book. I wish there was some way to give it no stars. She writes in stream on consciousness and it's very hard to follow.
In a few years I will become a girl emptied of herself, swollen with romantic ideas in a world reduced to other peoples expectations.- Annie Ernaux, A Frozen WomanThis is the tale of an unnamed female narrator who ends up following the path expected of her by society. Yet, she is ambitious and also wants to become a teacher and find happiness. But society tells her that one must live ones femaleness in its entirety to be complete and therefore happy. And that completeness involves both marriage
The fact that this book was published in 1981, documenting Annie Ernauxs life from her teenage years to life as a young married woman in (I think) the 60s just astounds me because it is still so ANNOYINGLY relevant..Her upbringing was rather unorthodox, full of women who refused to conform to gender roles, including her own mother, a loud, confident woman who ran the family grocery store while her husband looked after the café side of it as well as the cooking at home. But as Ernaux grew up and
this book has to be read by all women. It is a reminder of feminist battles.it's a detailed story, intense emotions.She began the story as an ambitious young girl and she ended a frozen women.
Grim little novel about how terrible it is to be a woman. I don't think her observations were off base, as many of the narrator's psychic woes are not unfamiliar to me, but it is so weighty, without any glimmer of hope or relief or escape. I suppose this is the fate of many women, and I suppose that was Ernaux's point, but I had to turn my face away in the end. The portrait of motherhood is especially bleak.
This is an autobiographical story of a woman who ends up married with two kids and feeling very lost and resentful. She begins as a young girl whose unconventional parents encourage, even push, her academically. They don't have her do any chores so she can study. As a tween and adolescent she becomes preoccupied with matters of appearance and attracting boys, but always with a commitment to a career of her own, and "freedom." In the end she almost makes it -- dating and marrying a boy who treats
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