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Annie Ernaux. Regarde les lumières mon amour. Paris. Seuil. 2014. isbn 9782370210371
Regarde les lumières mon amour is a wonderful addition to Annie Ernaux's life writings. Her observations of social life in a Parisian suburb reveal her incredible giftin noting the smallest details of present reality. This book is similar to two previous publications, La vie extérieure (2000; see WLT, Winter 2002, 179) and Journal du dehors (1993), as it happens to adopt the same diary-like format. The voice of the author is clearly present in her observations of the scenes and interactions in the supermarket Auchan in Cergy, where most of the passages take place. The author explains in her introduction, "the supermarket is a great human rendezvous, a spectacle." She adds: "In order to...