Abstract:

Annie Ernaux’s work entitled Les Années where she harvests her personal history and Frech social history attracts attention with its hybrid structure which is nourished with women and class studies. Apart from being an autobiographical work, it reveals its specificity for its intertextuality. This specificity is consolidated by the third person singular feminine pronoun when she describes her personal history and, by the third person singular neutral pronoun and the first person plural while she narrates social history. In this narrative based on time and memory, the intertwining of the individual and the social, the refusal of the retrospective and the ordinariness of the woman in the narrative exclude this text from Philippe Lejeune’s classical conception of autobiography. While constructing this narrative that Ernaux calls “autobiographie romanesque”, the biggest supporters of the narrater are the images. They are various in the text:  visual images, memorial images, phantom images and the images used to construct the flow of the events. All of these images allow the narrater to refuse the fictional narrative, to intensify the realism theme and to contruct a specific autobiographical narrative.

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