Happening begær og alt det besværlige

begær og alt det besværlige og vidunderlige ved at skabe et nyt fælles liv

Nyoversat af Tine Lykke Prado og med forord af Eva Tind

Hvordan ser en vidunderlig fest ud

ser en lysstråle i vandet under en bro

da den udkom i Frankrig

Happening begær og alt det besværligeIn 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she