

PASSION AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ACT OF WRITING IN THE NOVEL “PASSION SIMPLE” BY ANNIE ERNAUX
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PASSION AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ACT OF WRITING IN THE NOVEL “PASSION SIMPLE” BY ANNIE ERNAUX
Abstract
Annie Ernaux writes that writing should attempt to give the impression provoked by the sexual act on a screen, that anguish and the stupefaction, a suspension of moral judgement. (Ernaux,1992). In this study, we examine how passionate love is used as a metaphor for the act of writing, based on the novel Passion simple by the French writer Annie Ernaux. “All the traits that define passion are found there in writing: quest towards an impossible object, the extreme tension that binds the subject to its object in a dual relationship, a mixture of elation and pain.” (Mion, D. 2010). Through the literary analysis of the revelation of the narrator of her highly personal experience of extreme obsession for a married man, we observed the nature and the different stages of writing


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