"In this probing meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a ubiquitous feature of modern life that has received scant attention in literature. Recording her visits to a store near Paris for over a year, she captures the world that exists within its massive walls. Through Ernaux's eyes, the superstore emerges as "a great human meeting place, a spectacle"--a flashy, technologically advanced incarnation of the ancient marketplace where capitalism, cultural production, and class converge, dictating our rhythms of desire. With her relentless powers of observation, Ernaux takes the measure of a place we thought we knew, calling us to question the experiences we overlook and to gaze more deeply into ordinary life"--
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ISBN: 9780300268218
Physical Description:81 pages ; 20 cm.print
Publisher:New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023.
General Note: Translated from the French.Translation of: Regarde les lumières, mon amour.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.