An English translation of Ernaux's memoir about her father and life in small-town France, first published in 1984: a counterpart to 'A Woman's Story' published in English last year. Both are... read more
An audacious debut in which a young woman unburdens herself, at length and in surprising detail, to a Dr Seligman. A stream of consciousness leavened by black humour.
The controversial address to 3,500 psychoanalysts, at which he was booed off stage for asserting that the Academy needed to change their attitudes to gender.