Years – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Ernauxov Annie (2022)

Considered by many to be the defining work of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, The Years is a narrative of the period from 1941 to 2006, told through memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photographs, books, songs, radio, television, advertising and news headlines. Annie Ernaux invents a form that is both subjective and impersonal, private and collective, and creates a new genrethe collective autobiographyto capture the passing of time. At the confluence of autofiction and sociology, The Years is a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism (New York Times), a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman.