Roky - CDmp3 (Čte Eliška Balzerová)

The course of great history and the passage of years in one life… ***** Annie Ernaux's Balance relies on an unconventional mix of personal memories, diary entries, and historical facts from 1940 to 2006. It provides a valuable account of French, and by extension, Western history of everyday life over more than sixty years. Alongside it, it presents the extraordinary life story of a significant writer who introduced a new kind of autobiography: subjective yet impersonal, individual yet collective. The author's distinctive voice comments not only on the changing presidents, new inventions, or contemporary trends but also tells of love, family life, literary plans, and deepest fears. It is the voice of a post-war generation that experienced a revolutionary time full of technological wonders but was also forced to live for decades in a world divided by the Iron Curtain. Thus, it is a voice that does not overlook events in post-communist countries. A voice worth listening to… ***** Unconventionally conceived and extraordinarily eloquent memoirs of the new French Nobel Prize laureate in literature. ***** Length of the recording: 6 hours 40 minutes.