La langue et la quête de l'identité dans l’œuvre d’Annie Ernaux

Abstract

Since her early beginning in 1974 in her novel "Les armoires vides", Annie Ernaux writing about life in all its various aspects remained her main goal. This novel gave the earliest signals of what would happen later on in her literary career. Indeed, her works showed abilities of echoing reality, her sufferance and experiences via the use of simple and clear language. Add to this, her writings are to be viewed as an expression of deep felt journey, and a continuous search due to the consequent changes coming out of her identity.

    We try here to give an answer to the question about writing as to whether being, to Ernaux herself, a need for the search about her social and feminist identity, or a pure literary work. And at the same time, we try to look at her style and her active insistence on finding answers to her questions pertaining to her past and present. By so doing, we are to show the reality of this variation in style, and the distinctiveness of her literary works.