Simple Passion
By Annie Ernaux
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Simple Passion (1991) is a short autobiographical narrative by French writer Annie Ernaux about her affair with a married foreign man in Paris. Ernaux describes the months during which her life revolved around waiting for his calls and visits, and the obsession that followed when the affair ended. Writing plainly and without judgement, she examines desire, time and the way passion takes over a person's daily life.