内容摘要 一本纽约时报著名的书 Annie Ernaux 的父亲在她通过教师资格考试后两个月就去世了。 Ernaux 的父亲从小就没有受过严格的教育,也很重视他的劳动,但他已经成长为一个严厉、务实的人,对家人几乎没有感情。 Ernaux 的冷酷观察讲述了他向物质舒适的缓慢上升,揭示了困扰她父亲一生的耻辱。 她仔细检查了他对举止和语言的重要性,因为他在法国农村努力为家人提供杂货店和咖啡馆,这对他来说是如此不自然。 在这本书的过程中,Ernaux 成长为现在世界所熟悉的不妥协的观察者,而她的父亲成熟到老年,对生活的现状和对女儿的谨慎欣赏,甚至不情愿地钦佩。 《男人的地方》是她广受好评的关于她母亲的回忆录《女人的故事》的配套书。 A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France. Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires. A Man's Place is the companion book to her critically acclaimed memoir about her mother, A Woman's Story.
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