The Young Man

Synopsis

Winner of the 2022 nobel prize in literatureannie ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in france in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. “a sublime book. ” —elle“once again the work of the writer annie ernaux appears as both a rigorous study of life and an experiment. These fragments of living, however evanescent, are precious, irreplaceable, like a skin that never fades. ” —caroline montpetit in le devoirthe young man is annie ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with a., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties.