Happening længsel og smerte

længsel og smerte

og hvordan verden i hendes levetid er blevet udfordret af opbrud

ser en lysstråle i vandet under en bro

Nyoversat af Tine Lykke Prado og med forord af Eva Tind

This is a book of literary activism – an antidote to the shallow thinking that typifies our age

Happening længsel og smerteIn 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