Two more memoir/novels from Annie Ernaux: the first about her difficulties getting an abortion in the early 1960s, and the second about a sexual affair she carried on with a married diplomat from Eastern Europe. Happening was turned into an effective film, which like the book looks at Ernaux's quest in matter-of-fact and unblinking terms. A Simple Passion is a short and precise description of an obsession: the irrational behaviors, the waiting, the hoping – all told brutally, honestly and (maybe not surprisingly for this writer) without recourse to the sexually explicit.
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