Annie Erneaux – Ridge Writing Retreats

Writing vengeance

image of Szymborska's poem, Radość pisania, and Erneaux's Nobel lecture, I will write to avenge my people, j’écrirai pour venger ma race

I will write to avenge my people, writes Ernaux. Revenge, writes Szymborska. Why do these Nobelists write vengeance? Sixty years ago, Ernaux wrote a sentence in her diary, that was the springboard for her Nobel lecture: ‘I will write to avenge my people, j’écrirai pour venger ma race’. It echoed Rimbaud’s cry: ‘I am ofContinue reading “Writing vengeance”