The Possession

Annie Ernaux · 2002 CE · Narrative Non-fiction · French · Contemporary

The author, left by her lover, learns that he is living with another woman and is consumed by a need to find out everything about her. The short account treats jealousy as a possession in both senses, in the unadorned self-examination of Ernaux's later work.

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