The first Czech edition of memoirs of a prominent French author

In the book years, Annie Ernaux presents a personal story in which she describes the period 1940 to 2006 through his memories, impressions of the past and present, but at the same time derives forecasts of the future. Photographs, books, songs, radio, television and decades of ads and newspaper headlines have been contrast with her internal matches and diary records she has kept for six decades. The voice, which we recognize as the author's, repeatedly disappears in the text and then emerges again. It is a relentless time who tells his own story and puts all other narrators into anonymity. This creates a new kind of autobiography, which is subjective and at the same time impersonal, private as well as collective.

Nobel Prize for Literature 2022