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Positions by Annie Ernaux is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Positions about?

Annie Ernaux’s father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux’s father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux’s cold observation in A Man’s Place reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France. Over the course of the book, Annie Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously even reluctantly admires.

Who reads Positions?

Author

Annie Ernaux

Publisher

Quartet Books (UK)

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780704327856

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

3.62 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14