Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux is one of France's major living writers, and this evening offers a closer look at her main work, the novel Årene (The Years), with translator Lilian Munk Rösing as guide.
Rösing, who is also a writer, literature lecturer and critic, has translated Årene and two other Ernaux novels from French together with her mother, Birte Dahlgreen. The talk explores how the novel captures the French zeitgeist from 1940 to 2006, moving through social, political, family, technological and bodily history in one long stream of prose that shifts between a collective "we" and a personal "she".
