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The Possession
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The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city - the whole world - with a person you may never have met. These words set the framework for The Possession, a striking portrait of a woman after a love affair has ended....
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Published in the UK for the first time,Β The PossessionΒ is a striking meditation on jealousy and a major work by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.Β
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The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city - the whole world - with a person you may never have met. These words set the framework for The Possession, a striking portrait of a woman after a love affair has ended.
Annie Ernaux pulls the reader through every step of jealousy, of a woman's need to know who has replaced her in a lost beloved's life. Ernaux's writing, characteristically gorgeous in its precision, depicts the all too familiar human tendency to seek control and certainty after rejection.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781804271490
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 May 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Contributors:
- Translated by Anna Moschovakis
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 125.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 48
About the Author
Born in 1940,Β AnnieΒ ErnauxΒ grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she wasΒ aΒ professor at the Centre National d'Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particularΒ AΒ Man's PlaceΒ andΒ AΒ Woman'sΒ Story, have become contemporary classics in France. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Β
Anna Moschovakis is a poet, novelist and translator. She is the author of the novelsΒ An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth,Β ParticipationΒ andΒ Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love. Her translation of David Diop's novelΒ At Night All Blood Is BlackΒ won the 2021 International Booker Prize. She has also translated Albert Cossery'sΒ The Jokers, Annie Ernaux'sΒ The Possession,Β Bresson on Bresson, and (with Christine Schwartz-Harley) Marcelle Sauvageot'sΒ Commentary.Β
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