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The Use of Photography
3.990 kr.The Use of Photography recounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive chemo for breast cancer during the prior three months, and had lost all her hair from the treatments. At the end of January she had surgery, followed by radiation therapy.
The affair took place in different locations and Ernaux describes how, shortly after it began, she found herself entranced each morning by the sight of clothes strewn about, chairs out of place and the remains of their last meal of the evening still on the table – and how painful it felt to put things back in order afterwards. She went and got her camera, and began to take photographs of the scenes of disarray. When she told Marc Marie what she had done, he said he had felt the same desire.
Translated by Alison L. Strayer into English for the first time, The Use of Photography is an extraordinary meditation on eroticism, photography and writing, a major work by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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Naustið
3.790 kr.Naustið er óhefðbundin saga sem gerist á þremur sumardögum og fjallar um náin tengsl þriggja persóna. Síendurtekin stef mynda sterk hugrenningatengsl en það sem gerist í raun og veru er samt sem áður ófyrirsjáanlegt enda þótt vinátta, ást, afbrýðisemi og dauði séu í forgrunni. Bókin kom fyrst út 1989 og markaði upphafið að velgengni höfundarins í heimalandinu, en haustið 2023 hlaut Jon Fosse Nóbelsverðlaunin í bókmenntum.
Hjalti Rögnvaldsson íslenskaði.
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The Years
3.490 kr.Considered by many to be the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate’s defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising and news headlines. Annie Ernaux invents a form that is subjective and impersonal, private and collective, and a new genre – the collective autobiography – in order to capture the passing of time. At the confluence of autofiction and sociology, The Years is ‘a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism’ (New York Times), a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman.
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Svo þú villist ekki í hverfinu hérna
990 kr.Roskinn rithöfundur þarf að horfast í augu við fortíðina þegar dularfullt ungt par kemur inn í líf hans. Smám saman rifjast upp hálfgleymdar minningar, frá fyrstu skrefunum á rithöfundarbrautinni og allt aftur til erfiðrar reynslu í bernsku. Sögur lifna inni í öðrum sögum og smám saman færist lesandinn nær heildarmynd af því barni sem hann eitt sinn var, kjarna manneskjunnar.
Frakkinn Patrick Modiano (f. 1945) hlaut Nóbelsverðlaunin í bókmenntum árið 2014. Hann hefur sent frá sér fjölmargar skáldsögur þar sem tíminn og gleymskan móta líf persónanna. Modiano hefur verið kallaður „Marcel Proust vorra daga“ enda er sköpunarkraftur minnisins miðlægur í höfundarverki hans. Stíllinn er ávallt einstaklega tær og einfaldur.
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