AS MEMÓRIAS SUBTERRANEAS DE ANNIE ERNAUX EM "O ACONTECIMENTO" (2000)

Authors

  • Gabriela Seguesse Freitas Universidade Federal de São Carlos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32988/rep.v13n1.2405

Keywords:

Annie Ernaux, autobiography, French literature, underground memories, Michael Pollack

Abstract

In 2000, French writer Annie Ernaux publishes L’Evénement (translated in Brazil by Editora Fósforo in 2022 as O acontecimento), an autobiographical account of the abortion the writer underwent at the age of 23 in 1963, when the procedure was illegal in France. The memoir emerges twenty-five years after the country’s legalization of abortion in 1975. Drawing on Michael Pollack’s concept of “underground memories”, which refers to memories of marginalized groups that are “forbidden” and thus “clandestine,” Ernaux breaks taboos and silences surrounding the topic, bringing it into the public sphere by publishing her works. The French author draws worldwide attention to the subject when she wins the Nobel Prize in 2022, putting her literary project in the spotlight, with translations in several countries. With the aid of her journal, Ernaux retrieves in Happening the memory of her personal experience, which was shared by other women and kept concealed during that time, often continuing into the present day.

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Published

09-09-2024

How to Cite

Seguesse Freitas, G. (2024). AS MEMÓRIAS SUBTERRANEAS DE ANNIE ERNAUX EM "O ACONTECIMENTO" (2000). Revista (Entre Parênteses), 13(1). https://doi.org/10.32988/rep.v13n1.2405

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Section

Artigos - Estudos Literários