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Discussion of "Simple Passion" by Annie Ernaux

Hosted by the Consul of the Santiago de Chile Book Group
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Took place 2 days ago
Wed 04 Jun 19:30 - 22:30

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Please read the book before the event! It is available in English and Spanish translations on Kindle through Amazon. The original French title is Passion simple. The title of the Spanish translation is Pura pasión.

Wine and snacks will be provided.

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 attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the pieces of its aftermath, she is able to find it.

67 pp. (English translation)