A Girl's Story: Annie Ernaux

Synopsis

‘i too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that i have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have never managed to do so. ’ in a girl’s story, her latest book, annie ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, spent working as a holiday camp instructor in normandy, and recounts the first night she spent with a man. When he moves on, she realizes she has submitted her will to his and finds that she is a slave without a master.