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A Monologue of a Woman Conquered by Jealousy
A revised edition of Annie Ernaux's masterpiece, Obsession, a masterwork of modern French literature.
Annie Ernaux, a problematic French writer who defines her own world of work with the declaration, "I have never written fiction that I have not experienced firsthand, and I will never write fiction that I have not experienced firsthand," has created a unique world of work free from fabrication or metaphor by observing the relationship between society, history, literature, and the individual with a keen sense.
In 2011, his anthology, Writing Life, became the first living author to be included in the Gallimard collection, and he has recently been mentioned as a strong candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Munhakdongne Publishing Co. is publishing 『Casanova Hotel』, a collection of selected articles from 『Writing Life』, along with revised editions of its representative works 『Indulgence』 and 『Obsession』, presented with new covers.
This work, which was introduced in the summer of 2001 through the vacation special of [Le Monde], has a unique, condensed style that seems to have been woven with painstaking care, and a fierce writing style that goes down to the very core of existence, giving it a tremendous sense of weight despite its short length.
As you follow the author's breathing, immersed in the feeling of reading a diary that reflects the author's inner self from "Simple Passion" to "Indulgence," readers will find themselves mired in a swamp of jealousy.
A revised edition of Annie Ernaux's masterpiece, Obsession, a masterwork of modern French literature.
Annie Ernaux, a problematic French writer who defines her own world of work with the declaration, "I have never written fiction that I have not experienced firsthand, and I will never write fiction that I have not experienced firsthand," has created a unique world of work free from fabrication or metaphor by observing the relationship between society, history, literature, and the individual with a keen sense.
In 2011, his anthology, Writing Life, became the first living author to be included in the Gallimard collection, and he has recently been mentioned as a strong candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Munhakdongne Publishing Co. is publishing 『Casanova Hotel』, a collection of selected articles from 『Writing Life』, along with revised editions of its representative works 『Indulgence』 and 『Obsession』, presented with new covers.
This work, which was introduced in the summer of 2001 through the vacation special of [Le Monde], has a unique, condensed style that seems to have been woven with painstaking care, and a fierce writing style that goes down to the very core of existence, giving it a tremendous sense of weight despite its short length.
As you follow the author's breathing, immersed in the feeling of reading a diary that reflects the author's inner self from "Simple Passion" to "Indulgence," readers will find themselves mired in a swamp of jealousy.
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Obsession 09
Translator's Note: Intense Writing Encountered in the Abyss of Jealousy 73
No. 81 of Ernaux's Chronicles
Translator's Note: Intense Writing Encountered in the Abyss of Jealousy 73
No. 81 of Ernaux's Chronicles
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I've always wanted to write as if I wouldn't exist by the time my writing was published.
I write as if I were dead and there was no one left to judge.
--- p.9
The strangest thing about jealousy is that a city, the whole world, becomes filled with one being who would never meet.
--- p.17
The idea that you could make a human figure out of the soft part of a piece of bread and stick a pin in it no longer seemed so foolish.
(……)
The act of writing here may not be much different from the act of sticking a needle.
--- p.32~33
Nothing he said sounded ordinary.
(……) His every word was something that had to be constantly deciphered and interpreted, and it was painful because there was no way to confirm whether the interpretation was correct.
Words I had not paid attention to at first would come back to me at night, suddenly taking on a clear and desperate meaning and tormenting me.
The functions of exchange and communication that are usually attributed to language have been relegated to the background, replaced by the function of meaning only one thing: is his love for her or for me?
--- p.51
The only truth, the truth that would never be spoken, was, “I want to have sex with you and make you forget that woman.”
Everything else, strictly speaking, was fake.
--- p.53
Writing was a way of preserving what was no longer my reality, what had been a sensation that had assailed me from head to toe on the street, and had become an 'obsession' for a limited and limited time.
I write as if I were dead and there was no one left to judge.
--- p.9
The strangest thing about jealousy is that a city, the whole world, becomes filled with one being who would never meet.
--- p.17
The idea that you could make a human figure out of the soft part of a piece of bread and stick a pin in it no longer seemed so foolish.
(……)
The act of writing here may not be much different from the act of sticking a needle.
--- p.32~33
Nothing he said sounded ordinary.
(……) His every word was something that had to be constantly deciphered and interpreted, and it was painful because there was no way to confirm whether the interpretation was correct.
Words I had not paid attention to at first would come back to me at night, suddenly taking on a clear and desperate meaning and tormenting me.
The functions of exchange and communication that are usually attributed to language have been relegated to the background, replaced by the function of meaning only one thing: is his love for her or for me?
--- p.51
The only truth, the truth that would never be spoken, was, “I want to have sex with you and make you forget that woman.”
Everything else, strictly speaking, was fake.
--- p.53
Writing was a way of preserving what was no longer my reality, what had been a sensation that had assailed me from head to toe on the street, and had become an 'obsession' for a limited and limited time.
--- p.68
Publisher's Review
The only truth that will never be told,
“I want to have sex with you and make you forget that woman.”
“Even a trivial matter as light as air is a powerful confirmation to the jealous, like the testimony of the Bible.”
An emotion that anyone can feel, yet is at the same time deeply personal, sometimes making people infinitely petty, and sometimes a fatal emotion that can kill someone like a sharp knife.
No, Ernaux's "Obsession" is a monologue about a woman who is consumed by the emotion of jealousy.
This work, which was presented in the summer of 2001 in the vacation special edition of Le Monde, has a unique, condensed style that seems to have been woven with painstaking care, and a fierce writing style that goes down to the very core of existence, giving it a tremendous sense of weight despite its short length.
As you follow the author's breathing, immersed in the feeling of reading a diary that reflects the author's inner self from "Simple Passion" to "Indulgence," readers will find themselves mired in a swamp of jealousy.
I want to own him again,
I decided never to see him again, I… …
The never-ending cruel carousel within
The person who left W a few months ago was 'me'.
Partly because I didn't want to trade the cohabitation he wanted for my free life, but also because I was a little tired of him.
Then one evening he called me and told me that he was moving in with a woman.
Now you can't call his cell phone anytime.
At that moment, something takes hold inside me.
Who is she? How old is she? What does she do? Curiosity about the woman who stole him begins to grip me like an obsession.
I spent the night trying to find out her identity online, and called every possible place that could be her home without showing the caller ID.
Why is it so important to know her name? Because it is "to take away a tiny bit of what belongs to her now that my own existence has become emptied."
I am consumed by jealousy and desperately cling to a single word he throws out in passing.
His words, “I worked at the Sorbonne Library,” sound like “they worked together at the Sorbonne Library.”
'The communicative function of language is pushed to the back burner, and the only thing that matters to me is the language that distinguishes whether his love is for me or for her.'
The pain of losing him transformed into an obsession with that woman, encroaching on my daily life.
Among the many works that deal with jealousy, 『Obsession』 stands out in that the author goes down to the depths of his emotions and honestly reveals even his own ugly side.
Furthermore, rather than simply surrendering to the destructive emotions that shake him, the author attempts to break free from such obsession through intense writing that is like 'inserting needles'.
This work, in which the 'emotion' of personal and intimate jealousy is transformed into a 'substance' that can be felt and known, ultimately becomes an exit for the author to be freed from the burning pain and obsession.
Although it deals with the emotion of jealousy at the peak of reason and the way it is expressed, this candor does not mean emotional writing.
Ernaux is a very rational and calculating writer.
Between the sentences, which are constantly stripped of unnecessary details, meticulously cut and trimmed, and perfectly aligned, a precarious balance is established, like looking at a standing needle.
From the translator's note
The intense writing that turns oneself into a resonating box resonating with pain.
Our miserable self-portrait in love
Anyone who is in love or has lost a lover may find themselves in this book and experience a blushing sensation.
The protagonist, who is tormented by the desire to use information he carelessly leaks to spit out to his woman, “Is your lousy pee-pee okay?”, to make a doll of her and curse her with a needle, or to point a gun at her while swearing at her, is a childish but unforgettable self-portrait.
There are also scenes where he cannot suppress the desire to find out the woman's name and ends up going online again at night, thinking that he is like a woman who binge eats at night even when she is on a diet, and these are refreshing passages that can only be read through a woman's eyes.
This is a well-written novel that describes in a way that you can't help but sympathize with the pain I feel when the man who used to ask me about my daily life over the phone every day and listen to my trivial stories with interest no longer comes to see me, and the descriptions of my daily life no longer pique his interest, the pain that I have been replaced by another woman.
▶ Media reviews
It realistically portrays the emptiness of those who can no longer love or be loved.
-Elle
A work of simplicity and restraint, discernment and sensitivity.
A sticky imagination leads us into a swamp of jealousy that fester like a blister.
-Lir
Another charm of Ernaux's writing, which reveals great intellect through self-analysis and sharp narration, is the passion that occasionally appears between careful and strict expressions of emotion, like a spark buried in ashes.
The novel's taut tension, which ranges between extremes of roughness and paleness, coolness and turbulent emotions, is more than enough to captivate us.
-Le Figaro Literature
A book for lovers who have just started to spread their wings, and for those who are afraid of what comes after that love.
-Le Village
“I want to have sex with you and make you forget that woman.”
“Even a trivial matter as light as air is a powerful confirmation to the jealous, like the testimony of the Bible.”
An emotion that anyone can feel, yet is at the same time deeply personal, sometimes making people infinitely petty, and sometimes a fatal emotion that can kill someone like a sharp knife.
No, Ernaux's "Obsession" is a monologue about a woman who is consumed by the emotion of jealousy.
This work, which was presented in the summer of 2001 in the vacation special edition of Le Monde, has a unique, condensed style that seems to have been woven with painstaking care, and a fierce writing style that goes down to the very core of existence, giving it a tremendous sense of weight despite its short length.
As you follow the author's breathing, immersed in the feeling of reading a diary that reflects the author's inner self from "Simple Passion" to "Indulgence," readers will find themselves mired in a swamp of jealousy.
I want to own him again,
I decided never to see him again, I… …
The never-ending cruel carousel within
The person who left W a few months ago was 'me'.
Partly because I didn't want to trade the cohabitation he wanted for my free life, but also because I was a little tired of him.
Then one evening he called me and told me that he was moving in with a woman.
Now you can't call his cell phone anytime.
At that moment, something takes hold inside me.
Who is she? How old is she? What does she do? Curiosity about the woman who stole him begins to grip me like an obsession.
I spent the night trying to find out her identity online, and called every possible place that could be her home without showing the caller ID.
Why is it so important to know her name? Because it is "to take away a tiny bit of what belongs to her now that my own existence has become emptied."
I am consumed by jealousy and desperately cling to a single word he throws out in passing.
His words, “I worked at the Sorbonne Library,” sound like “they worked together at the Sorbonne Library.”
'The communicative function of language is pushed to the back burner, and the only thing that matters to me is the language that distinguishes whether his love is for me or for her.'
The pain of losing him transformed into an obsession with that woman, encroaching on my daily life.
Among the many works that deal with jealousy, 『Obsession』 stands out in that the author goes down to the depths of his emotions and honestly reveals even his own ugly side.
Furthermore, rather than simply surrendering to the destructive emotions that shake him, the author attempts to break free from such obsession through intense writing that is like 'inserting needles'.
This work, in which the 'emotion' of personal and intimate jealousy is transformed into a 'substance' that can be felt and known, ultimately becomes an exit for the author to be freed from the burning pain and obsession.
Although it deals with the emotion of jealousy at the peak of reason and the way it is expressed, this candor does not mean emotional writing.
Ernaux is a very rational and calculating writer.
Between the sentences, which are constantly stripped of unnecessary details, meticulously cut and trimmed, and perfectly aligned, a precarious balance is established, like looking at a standing needle.
From the translator's note
The intense writing that turns oneself into a resonating box resonating with pain.
Our miserable self-portrait in love
Anyone who is in love or has lost a lover may find themselves in this book and experience a blushing sensation.
The protagonist, who is tormented by the desire to use information he carelessly leaks to spit out to his woman, “Is your lousy pee-pee okay?”, to make a doll of her and curse her with a needle, or to point a gun at her while swearing at her, is a childish but unforgettable self-portrait.
There are also scenes where he cannot suppress the desire to find out the woman's name and ends up going online again at night, thinking that he is like a woman who binge eats at night even when she is on a diet, and these are refreshing passages that can only be read through a woman's eyes.
This is a well-written novel that describes in a way that you can't help but sympathize with the pain I feel when the man who used to ask me about my daily life over the phone every day and listen to my trivial stories with interest no longer comes to see me, and the descriptions of my daily life no longer pique his interest, the pain that I have been replaced by another woman.
▶ Media reviews
It realistically portrays the emptiness of those who can no longer love or be loved.
-Elle
A work of simplicity and restraint, discernment and sensitivity.
A sticky imagination leads us into a swamp of jealousy that fester like a blister.
-Lir
Another charm of Ernaux's writing, which reveals great intellect through self-analysis and sharp narration, is the passion that occasionally appears between careful and strict expressions of emotion, like a spark buried in ashes.
The novel's taut tension, which ranges between extremes of roughness and paleness, coolness and turbulent emotions, is more than enough to captivate us.
-Le Figaro Literature
A book for lovers who have just started to spread their wings, and for those who are afraid of what comes after that love.
-Le Village
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: March 18, 2022
- Format: Hardcover book binding method guide
- Pages, weight, size: 88 pages | 192g | 135*195*10mm
- ISBN13: 9788954685603
- ISBN10: 8954685609
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