Annie Ernaux Speaks at SIEL 2026, Discussing Literature

At SIEL 2026, Annie Ernaux Dismantles the Fiction of Literature

There are writers who construct worlds, and there are those who dismantle the very conditions that make “worlds” narratable.  On the first evening of the International Publishing and Book Fair (SIEL) 2026, in the Salle Ibn Battuta, Annie Ernaux came to defend her own definition of literature as a radical practitioner of subtraction, someone for whom writing is an act of stripping language back to its social and material truth. The post At SIEL 2026, Annie Ernaux Dismantles the Fiction of Lite...

By Firdaous Naim