During an exchange with the public, the novelist was warmly thanked by a young woman for doing so. “enter feminism“through reading her autobiographical novel on abortion,” The Event “(2000), brought to the screen last year by Audrey Diwan.”It’s wonderful for me, the carrier, because I don’t feel responsible for this effect my books have on the new generations.“, Replied the novelist, all smiles.
In the United States, Annie Ernaux has a busy schedule. Before this meeting at the French cultural center, the writer had presented with her son David Ernaux-Briot their family documentary, The Super 8 years old, at the 60th New York Film Festival. This Wednesday she will be received at Columbia University’s Barnard College, a women’s faculty of literature.
