My Place

The novel "My Place," for which Annie Ernaux received the Renaudot Prize in 1984, marked the beginning of the writer's auto-sociobiographical method: this concise, economical writing that reveals the intersections of the personal and the social will bring Ernaux global fame. At the center of the novel is the figure of the father, a contemporary of the twentieth century, who, at a great cost, paved his way from a factory worker to a small shopkeeper, and his relationship with his adult daughter, who has discovered herself in a different social class with other values, language, tastes, and behavior.

Together with the book "Woman," dedicated to the mother, this book forms a peculiar "parental diptych."