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    A Study Guide for Annie Ernaux's "I Remain in Darkness"
    A Study Guide for Annie Ernaux's "I Remain in Darkness"
    A Study Guide for Annie Ernaux's "I Remain in Darkness"
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    A Study Guide for Annie Ernaux's "I Remain in Darkness"

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    A Study Guide for Annie Ernaux's "I Remain in Darkness," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Nonfiction Classics for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 20, 2016
    ISBN9781535825443
    A Study Guide for Annie Ernaux's "I Remain in Darkness"

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      I Remain in Darkness

      Annie Ernaux

      1997

      Introduction

      The volume I Remain in Darkness is Annie Ernaux's collection of unedited journal entries that she wrote over the last two and a half years of her mother's life. The entries depict Ernaux's highly personal reaction to her mother's decline to Alzheimer's disease. As Ernaux experiences an almost overwhelming onslaught of conflicting emotions, she reflects on her past and, most particularly, her relationship with her mother, Blanche. Although in previously published works Ernaux has explored ties to her family that were fraught with difficulty, I Remain in Darkness provides an intensely intimate, immediate portrayal of the bonds between a grown daughter and her dying

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