O acontecimentoO acontecimento
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Current format, Book, 2022, Available . Offered in 0 more formatsUma jovem de 23 anos, estudante universitária brilhante, descobre que está grávida. Tomada pela vergonha, consciente de que aquela gravidez representará um falhanço social para si e para a sua família, sabe que não poderá ter aquela criança. Mas, na França de 1963, o aborto é ilegal e não existe ninguém a quem possa acorrer. Quarenta anos mais tarde, as memórias daquele acontecimento continuam presentes, num trauma impossível de ultrapassar e cujas sombras se estendem para além da história individual. Escrito com uma clareza acutilante, sem artifícios, este é um romance poderoso sobre sofrimento, justiça e a condição feminina. Escrito por Annie Ernaux em 1999, foi adaptado ao cinema em 2021 por Audrey Diwan, num filme vencedor do Leão de Ouro em Veneza.
In 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 finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.
In 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 finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.
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