Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux published her first novel in 1974 and has since written more than twnty books, including Simple Passion, The Years and A Girl’s Story. In 2022 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. ‘Hôtel Casanova’ is an excerpt from Ernaux’s book Hôtel Casanova et autres textes brefs, published by Editions Gallimard.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 162
Hôtel Casanova
Annie Ernaux
‘I never asked myself if I loved P. But nothing could have kept me from going to make love with him at the Hôtel Casanova.’
Memoir by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer.
