"A black and white photo of a little girl in a dark swimsuit on a pebble beach. Cliffs in the background. She is sitting on a flat rock, her sturdy legs stretched out straight in front of her, her arms resting on the rock, her eyes closed, her h ...
"A black and white photo of a little girl in a dark swimsuit on a pebble beach. Cliffs in the background. She is sitting on a flat rock, her sturdy legs stretched out straight in front of her, her arms resting on the rock, her eyes closed, her head slightly tilted, smiling. One thick brown braid is swept back in front, the other down her back.
Everything reveals a desire to pose like the stars in Cinémonde or the Ambre Solaire advertisement, to escape her humiliating and unimportant little girl body. The lighter-colored thighs and upper arms outline the shape of a dress and indicate the exceptional nature, for this child, of a stay or outing to the sea. The beach is deserted. On the back: August 1949, Sotte-ville-sur-Mer."
Through photographs and memories left by events, words, and things, Annie Ernaux gives us a sense of the passage of time, from the post-war period to the present day. At the same time, she inscribes existence in a new form of autobiography, impersonal and collective.
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