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Hotel Casanova: And Other Brief Texts

Hotel Casanova: And Other Brief Texts

Ernaux, Annie
Strayer, Alison L.

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Letters & EssaysFiction Anthologies

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ISBN10: 164421573X
ISBN13: 9781644215739
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.81
Language: English
In twelve short texts written between 1984 and 2006, here is Annie Ernaux at her most incisive and intimate, presenting readers with yet another new experience of the razor's edge of the author's sensibility, this time in the form of brief works of fiction or nonfiction.

In Hotel Casanova, the title story of this collection, Ernaux describes a series of hotel-room trysts with a man who holds no interest for her other than sexually, just after her mother is admitted to hospital suffering from severe dementia. The story brilliantly captures the loss of sense of self, and at the same time the intense pleasure and pain that she experiences through a kind of cascade of alienation. Then, in Histories, Ernaux recalls a time in her childhood when she was the older girl responsible for a younger neighbor, holding her hand and bringing her to school and then home again, and the feelings of loss that ensued when this ended.

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