Happening Nyoversat af Tine Lykke Prado

Nyoversat af Tine Lykke Prado og med forord af Eva Tind

This is a book of literary activism – an antidote to the shallow thinking that typifies our age

da den udkom i Frankrig

ser en lysstråle i vandet under en bro

Ingen af de to kvinder passer ind

Happening Nyoversat af Tine Lykke PradoIn 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