ARGONAUT BOOKS

Published in the UK for the first time, The Possession is a striking meditation on jealousy and a major work by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.  Reviews 'Ernaux writes not in the heat of desire but in retrospect. The translation by Anna Moschovakis is chicly austere. Like concrete poetry, small paragraphs sit adrift on the page; the text is as unmoored as our protagonist…. While she dances on the edge of insanity, she revels in the pain of feeling alive. Being numb is worse than being in agony.' - Genevieve Gaunt, The Spectator'The most intimate human...Read More