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A review by dukegregory
Look at the Lights, My Love by Annie Ernaux
3.0
3.5
Ernaux's consideration of big-box stores is one grounded loosely in an analysis of class, French imperialism, globalized labor, ritual, the extension of traditional gender-roles in a supposedly post-feminist France, community, and her own associations/memories regarding shopping. It's a slight work in Ernaux's catalog, but her concisions and precisions, I feel, affect me toward a clarified gaze: a prism through which to not just see the world's ephemera but actively process it instead of taking life's phenomena for granted.
Ernaux's consideration of big-box stores is one grounded loosely in an analysis of class, French imperialism, globalized labor, ritual, the extension of traditional gender-roles in a supposedly post-feminist France, community, and her own associations/memories regarding shopping. It's a slight work in Ernaux's catalog, but her concisions and precisions, I feel, affect me toward a clarified gaze: a prism through which to not just see the world's ephemera but actively process it instead of taking life's phenomena for granted.