ENGLISH DESCRIPTION WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A family scene, and its disturbing consequences, dissected by the author who has made her life into literary material In 1952, when Annie Ernaux was twelve years old, her father tried to kill her mother one Sunday in June, early in the afternoon. Years later, that scene appears to the author as cruelly clear as the day she lived it. Like in so many other families, her parents, who hate each other, instead adore the child, so as the days pass and forgetfulness invades the home, the memory of that Sunday seems to become a bad dream. However, that scene changed the author forever: that girl and her family "had ceased to be decent people," and everything had become shameful. Annie Ernaux examines everything from the codes of conduct and social norms that prevailed in her environment to the news of the time, the most commonly used expressions, or the fear that big cities instilled, to accurately gauge to what extent what happened made her feel unworthy.