Annie Ernaux

The French author of three New York Times Notable Books of the Year presents a novel written in the form of journal entries over seven years that records the tumultuous life of random strangers. Tour. IP.

Exteriors

 is to understand the bones and the carcass, the deep inequitable malaise, the imperial-boomerang-driven-rot and fundamental sicknesses of contemporary paris. 

here, ernaux also poses fascinating philosophical questions as always. these are for the industrial metropolis, the city rats, those whose humanity or ability to perceive it have been flattened, bulldozed, conquered and digested by the violence of urban, late-capitalist, metro-driven life. 

in formal inventiveness also the/a precursor to sheila heti's alphabetical diaries, surely

chris

virtuousic and haunting. to read Exteriors is to understand the bones and the carcass, the deep inequitable malaise, the imperial-boomerang-driven-rot and fundamental sicknesses of contemporary paris. 

here, ernaux also poses fascinating philosophical questions as always. these are for the industrial metropolis, the city rats, those whose humanity or ability to perceive it have been flattened, bulldozed, conquered and digested by the violence of urban, late-capitalist, metro-driven life. 

in formal inventiveness also the/a precursor to sheila heti's alphabetical diaries, surely

Exteriors

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