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The Use of Technical Images in Annie Ernaux’s Books

Author(s): Stefan Goncharov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Studies of Literature, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Annie Ernaux; Media theory; Film essay; Montage; Ekphrasis

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux’s oeuvre in light of her “novelistic” film essay – “The super 8 years” (directed together with her son, David Ernaux-Briot). Following a close reading of the movie’s structure and themes the text tries to demonstrate how certain cinematic techniques (like montage) shape Ernaux’s approach to literature. Through dissecting the author’s “flat writing” style in terms of technical images, the article tries to define the contemporary aesthetic of literary works which exist on the boundary between literature and cinema. The aim is to offer a productive way of defining how the two mediums can complement each other – how images can enable the use of language and how language can make sense of images.

  • Issue Year: XVII/2023
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 203-221
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bulgarian
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