Ordinary Passion. Shame

Under one cover are two novels by Nobel Prize laureate Annie Ernaux. «Ordinary Passion» — an autobiographical novel about obsession with a man that makes a woman neglect not only the whole world but also her own life. But what... is this passion really: a curse or a luxury? The novel served as the basis for the eponymous Franco-Belgian film, which was included in the program of the Cannes Film Festival and the International Festival in San Sebastián. ___________ «Shame» — this is a resurrection on paper of memories of the morals of post-war Normandy, a Catholic school, and the burning feeling of shame for one's origins and the environment, which in childhood feels more intense than ever.