Annie Ernaux | Happening
- In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame.In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days.Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.
- • Language: English
• Format: 11 x 20 cm
• Volume: 80 pages
• Covers: paperback
• Year of issue: 2022.