"A Simple Passion" by Anne Erno Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House

Introduction
----Editor's Recommendation-----
* Representative works by Anne Erno, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature
* An anti-emotional work analyzing universal passions
* From a subjective and thoroughly objective perspective, write about the inner world of a person suffering from separation and the futility of loneliness
----Media Recommendation----
Erno "exposes the roots of individual memory, the divides, and the collective constraints with courage and clinical acumen," and she "consistently examines from different perspectives the vast differences in life along gender, language, and class."
——Swedish Academy Nobel Prize in Literature Committee
Anne Erno is the queen of the new autobiography. ——Times Magazine
Erno's success is to cherish ordinary emotions and to elevate ordinary expressions of emotions... This is a monument to a passion that defies easy explanation. - The New York Times
A work of lyrical precision and diamond clarity. —The New Yorker
The pain and anxiety of waiting, the brief soul contact after making love, the drowsiness and fatigue that follow, the rekindling of desire, the trivial insults and contempt of infatuation and abandonment, all of which Erno tells with a calm and cold attitude, making people feel firm and true to himself. - The Washington Post
In this book, Anne Erno describes a love affair that has no result, and the protagonist is not free. Every paragraph, every word, brings the reader closer to the purest desire... - The Observer
Like Erno's other works, the fascinating thing about "A Simple Passion" is the interaction between the individual self-nature of the life material and the documentary, non-utilitarian, almost selfless form of expression. - "New Statesman"
----Content Introduction-----
Anne Erno records the desires and humility of a heart completely devoured by passion in her concise and unadorned style. She blurs the line between fact and fiction, trying to depict her two-year emotional and physical journey with a married man. In the process, every word, every thing, every person is either related to her lover or she is indifferent. With courage and precision, Erno seeks the truth behind an era that exists entirely for others.
About the Author
author
Anne Ernault is a contemporary French writer. She was born in Lillebeaune, France, and spent her youth in Yvetot, Normandy. She holds a national teaching certificate in modern literature and has taught in Annecy, Pontoise and the National Center for Distance Education. She lives in Cergy in the Oise Valley region. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022.
Translator
Yuan Xiaoyi is the dean of the Simian Institute for Advanced Humanities Studies at East China Normal University, a professor of French literature, and a translator. His research direction is the translation theory of French language and literature. His representative works include "Legends of Words: Eleven French Modern Classic Literature Courses", and his translations include Modiano's "So You Won't Get Lost" (a work that won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature) and "Songs of Tenderness" (a winner of the 10th Fu Lei Translation and Publishing Award).