The Possession

'The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city - the whole world - with a person you may never have met.' These words set the framework for The Possession, a striking portrait of a woman after a love affair has ended. Annie Ernaux pulls the reader through every step of jealousy, of a woman's need to know who has replaced her in a lost beloved's life. Ernaux's writing, characteristically gorgeous in its precision, depicts the all too familiar human tendency to seek control and certainty after rejection.

Product details

• Authors: Annie Ernaux, Ernaux Annie
• Assisted by: Anna Moschovak (Translation), Moschovakis Anna (Translation)
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 01.05.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781804271490
• ISBN: 978-1-80427-149-0
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Autobiography: general, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Memoirs, PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism, Autobiography: literary, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Autobiography: writers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs