A Nobel Laureate Walks Into a Supermarket
Annie Ernaux on the malaise of the grocery store
by Gal Beckerman http://www.theatlantic.com/author/gal-beckerman/?utm_source=scribd
Jun 02, 2023
3 minutes
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When the French author Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize last fall, it was for her highly personal books—autobiographical narratives in which she places herself on an operating table and also acts as the surgeon, splaying out her thoughts and anxieties and desires in meticulous, vulnerable detail. But little did the English-reading public know that she was also interested in … supermarkets.
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