Talk:Annie Ernaux

STYLE (and meaning)
I am not happy with the wording social history of a woman (about the book The Years). I suppose indeed it shows Ernaux's social perspective and that it means that her personal STORY can be exemplified. Yet... what do you think about it?--Pierre et Condat (talk) 13:34, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Quality of information and translation
Oh dear – not sure where to start, but this page (unlike the French Wikipedia page on Ernaux)is SO full of problems. I think these can be boiled down to two obvious issues: one is the general sense that the woman and writer Ernaux comes across as barely understood in any substantial sense, the other is the very obvious misapprehension of what various terms mean in French (the translations sometimes suggesting a poor grasp of English as well). The two may well be connected. It does not inspire confidence.

A disclaimer; I am not an expert on Ernaux – I have only read a little of her work, in the original French. If I knew more, I would comprehensively rewrite the page (or simply translate the French Wikipedia article, which as far as I can tell is very sound).

I am going to make a small number of very obvious edits (e.g. 'professeur/se' in French is not a professor, in either of the UK or US senses of the term: it is a school teacher; aggrégé/e (de lettres modernes) does not equate to a doctorate, though as a competitive qualification it has no precise equivalent that I can think of in UK/US terms.) But that is fiddling around the edges; really, this article cries out for a wholesale re-write from someone who knows their stuff. NatGoodden (talk) 15:26, 10 May 2019 (UTC)