The Young Man WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the scandalous girl of her youth. When she is with him, she replays scenes she has already lived through, feeling both ageless and closer to death. Laid like a palimpsest on the present, the pasts immediacy pushes her to take a decisive step in her writing producing, in turn, the need to expunge her lover. At once stark and tender, The Young Man is a taut encapsulation of Ernauxs relationship to time, memory and writing.