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 c…
A lo largo de los años el dueño llena de recuerdos su casa, testigo mudo de su vida. Y aquél es también la fiel imagen de ella. Como las parejas que han convivido siempre juntas. Así, cuando su ocupan…
Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I li…
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton Colleg…
Amb el carnet de conduir acabat d’estrenar, la Gabriela puja a passar l’estiu al poble de l’avi, on guanyarà el primer sou fent la substitució de la bibliotecària durant les vacances. És el dia de San…
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator att…
