The Use of Photography [electronic resource]
Annie Ernaux2024
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The Use of Photography recounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux
and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003.
Ernaux had been receiving intensive chemo for breast cancer during the prior
three months, and had lost all her hair from the treatments. At the end of
January she had surgery, followed by radiation therapy. The affair took place in
different locations and Ernaux describes how, shortly after it began, she found
herself entranced each morning by the sight of clothes strewn about, chairs out
of place and the remains of their last meal of the evening still on the table –
and how painful it felt to put things back in order afterwards. She went and got
her camera, and began to take photographs of the scenes of disarray. When she
told Marc Marie what she had done, he said he had felt the same desire.
Translated by Alison L. Strayer into English for the first time, The Use of
Photography is an extraordinary meditation on erotici...
Main title:
The Use of Photography [electronic resource] / Annie Ernaux
Author:
Annie Ernaux, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (136 pages, 2398670.0 Bytes,)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781804271155
Language:
English
BRN:
524141
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