Further Reading
- Bernstein, Richard, "When a Parent Becomes the Child," New York Times (22 November 1999): section E, p. 7. (Bernstein compliments Ernaux's "almost brutal conciseness" in "I Remain in Darkness," but notes that the book is "less gripping … than her earlier works.")
- Blais, Madeleine, "Knowing Her Place," Los Angeles Times Book Review (13 August 1995): 2, 8. (Blais praises Ernaux's honesty and insight in A Frozen Woman.)
- Brown, John L., Review of Une femme, by Annie Ernaux, World Literature Today 63, No. 1 (Winter 1989): 71-72. (Positive assessment of A Woman's Story. The critic asserts: "Ernaux has convincingly expressed the deep and enduring love she felt for her mother in a text of controlled emotion, of sensibility free of sentimentality, which is also, as she wished it to be, a sociological commentary on the situation of certain groups of the French working class in the middle of the twentieth century.")
- Day, Loraine, and Lyn Thomas, "Exploring the Interspace: Recent Dialogues around the Work of Annie Ernaux," Feminist Review 74, no. 1 (2003): 98. (Day and Thomas discuss their experiences at two international conferences, which took place in October-November 2002, that focused on Ernaux's body of work.)
- Eakin, Emily, "The ‘Thing,’" New York Times Book Review (28 October 2001): section 7, p. 24. (Eakin commends Ernaux's compelling account of her illegal abortion in Happening, lauding the work "for being unabashedly philosophical rather than moral.")
- Hutton, M. A., "Challenging Autobiography: Lost Object and Aesthetic Object in Ernaux's Une femme," Journal of European Studies 28, no. 3 (September 1998): 231-45. (Hutton asserts that the lines between biography and autobiography are blurred in Une femme and examines the nature of identity in the book.)
- McIlvanney, Siobhán, Annie Ernaux: The Return to Origins, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2001, 239 p. (McIlvanney offers a critical and thematic analysis of Ernaux's oeuvre.)
- Robinson, Lillian S., "A Soup of Wild Herbs," The Nation 253, No. 6 (26 August-2 September 1991): 234-36. (Review of A Woman's Story and Emilie Carles's A Life of Her Own: A Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France, in which Robinson discusses Ernaux's focus on womanhood, class conflict, prejudice, upward mobility, aging, and grief in contemporary French society.)
- Rose, Marilyn Gaddis, Review of La place, by Annie Ernaux, World Literature Today 60, No. 1 (Winter 1986): 67. (Favorably assesses A Man's Place.)
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