The Use of Photography

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE An account of Annie Ernaux’s love affair with journalist Marc Marie while she was undergoing treatment for cancer, and their combined project to document images and memories. Includes 14 black and white photographs by the authors. Love and death cohabit in The affair took place in different locations and Ernaux describes how, shortly after it began, she found herself entranced each morning by the sight of clothes strewn about, chairs out of place and the remains of their last meal of the evening still on the table--and how painful it felt to put things back in order afterward. She went and got her camera, and began to take photographs of the scenes of disarray. When she told Marc Marie what she had done, he said he had felt the same desire.

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Annie Ernaux

Product details

• Authors: Annie Ernaux, Marc Marie, Alison L. Strayer
• Publisher: Seven stories press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9781644214138
• ISBN: 978-1-64421-413-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 209 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business