Simple Passion - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

This is a raw and intimate confession of a two-year love affair, written with clear precision and a sense of privacy that makes you feel like an eavesdropper. It raises questions about the limits of freedom and transgression, is very frank about sexual desire, and is fresh and intense prose that flies by - I read it in one sitting. It's exciting seeing women prose stylists pushing the edges and even more exciting that this won her a Nobel.

It is such a brief 'novel', if one may call it so, that one can finish in an hour's reading. And yet, it is so refreshingly frank, amoral and passionate, that some aspects of it will always stay in the mind.

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Absolutely mind blowing ! It reveals our state of mind which we suppress very catiously .....

A short but intense account of Annie Ernaux's obsession with a younger married man, this little book - although admirable in its honesty - was one that left me feeling rather ambivalent about it. The way the author, an intelligent and seemingly independent middle-aged woman, totally immerses herself in an all-consuming passion and her submissiveness in the face of this passion - waiting anxiously for his calls, putting her own life on hold so she can be available for when he can fit her into his life, choosing her clothes purely to excite her lover, feeling life is not worth it when she is not with him, and so forth - made me feel rather impatient with her. I did find it interesting the way the author examined her feelings so honestly and analytically and for those who have been in a similar situation, this book may really resonate; however, for me, this account of a woman's overwhelming passion and the indignities she suffered for that passion, was not one I really enjoyed.3 Stars.