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It examines themes and forms across her early exploration of sexuality, her portrayals of adult female behavior, and her auto/biographical legacies. The analysis also considers self-representation through diaries and related autobiographical materials, culminating in a focused reading of La Honte and L’Evénement. The work positions Ernaux within modern and contemporary French writing debates through diverse critical and theoretical approaches.","Annie Ernaux  \nModern French Writers 6  \nModern French Writers  \nGeneral Editor EDMUND SMYTH University of Liverpool  \nConsultant Editors  \nMICHAEL SHERINGHAM  \nRoyal Holloway, University of London  \nDAVID WALKER University of Sheffield  \nThis series aims to provide a forum for new research on modern and contemporary French and Francophone writing. The volumes to be published in Modern French Writers will offer new readings of already widelyknown writers in addition to those whose work is beginning to command attention. The contributions to the series reflect a wide variety of critical practices and theoretical approaches, in harmony with the developments which have taken place over the past few decades. Modern French writing will be considered in all its manifestations: novel, poetry, drama, autobiography, cinema, popular culture, theory. In keeping with the erosion of contours which characterises the modern period,‘canonical’ and ‘noncanonical’ writers will be examined, both within France and the Frenchspeaking world more generally. The volumes in the series will participate in the wider debate on key aspects of contemporary culture.  \n1 The Erotics of Passage: Pleasure, Politics and Form in the Later Work of Marguerite Duras, James S. Williams, 1997, ISBN 0-85323-990-8 (hb), 0-85323-501-5 (pb)  \n2 Reading between the Lines: Claude Simon and the Visual Arts, Jean H. Duffy, 1998,  \nISBN 0-85323-841-3 (hb), 0-85323-851-0 (pb)  \n3 Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction, David Platten, 1999, ISBN 0-85323-843-X (hb), 0-85323-853-7 (pb)  \n4 Hervé Guibert: Voices of the Self, Jean-Pierre Boulé, 1999, ISBN 0-85323-861-8 (hb), 0-85323-871-5 (pb)  \n5 A Self-Conscious Art: Patrick Modiano’s Postmodern Fictions, Akane Kawakami, 2000, ISBN 0-85323-526-0 (hb), 0-85323-536-8 (pb)  \nANNIE ERNAUX  \nThe Return to Origins  \nSiobhán McIlvanney  \nKing’s College, London  \nLIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nFirst published 2001 by Liverpool University Press  \n4 Cambridge Street Liverpool L69 7ZU  \nCopyright © Siobhán McIlvanney 2001  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data  \nA British Library CIP record is available ISBN 0–85323–537–6 cased  \n0–85323–547–3 paperback  \nTypeset by Freelance Publishing Services, Brinscall, Lancs [www.freelancepublishingservices.co.uk](www.freelancepublishingservices.co.uk)  \nPrinted in Great Britain by  \nAntony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire  \nContents  \nAcknowledgements vi  \nList of Abbreviations vii  \nIntroduction: Con/textualising the Corpus 1  \n1 The Early Years: Classifying Sexuality in 17  \nLes Armoires vides and Ce qu’ils disent ou  \nrien  \n2 The Adult Woman: Female Behaviour 49  \nParadigms in La Femme gelée and Passion  \nsimple  \n3 Writing the Auto/biographical Legacies of 87 La Place and Une femme  \n4 Self/representation through the M/other in 117  \nthe Diaries of ‘Je ne suis pas sortie de manuit’, Journal du dehors and La Vie  \nextérieure  \n5 The Return to Origins: La Honte and 153 L’Evénement  \nNotes 177  \nBibliography 221  \nIndex 233  \nAcknowledgements  \nI would like to thank Elizabeth Fallaize, Diana Holmes and Diana Knight for their time and effort in reading and commenting on various parts of the manuscript. I would also like to thank my brother, Liam, for his helpful advice on earlier drafts. I am grateful to my students at King’s for their enthusiastic questions and for enjoyable discussionson women’s writing and Annie Ernaux in particular. The two people most deserving of my thanks for this project are my mother, Moira, whose love and encouragement were, and continue to be, a source of strength, and my partner Alan Overd, whose kind, supportive presence has long been invaluable to me.  \nS. 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