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Revisiting the Trauma of Abortion Forty Years Later; In 1963, 23-year-old literature student Annie Ernaux realised she was pregnant by a man she was no longer seeing. As the first college-educated person in a family of storekeepers, she regarded her pregnancy as a social failure. Unsuccessful in her attempt to abort the baby herself with a knitting needle, she sought an abortionist, who carried out the task in a sordid Paris apartment. After expelling the foetus in a dormitory bathroom, Emaux suffered a haemorrhage and nearly died. Forty years later, she gathers the details of this experience from memories and journal entries, transforming the suffering, guilt, shame, and self-hate into universal happenings.
Revisiting the Trauma of Abortion Forty Years Later; In 1963, 23-year-old literature student Annie Ernaux realised she was pregnant by a man she was no longer seeing. As the first college-educated person in a family of storekeepers, she regarded her pregnancy as a social failure. Unsuccessful in her attempt to abort the baby herself with a knitting needle, she sought an abortionist, who carried out the task in a sordid Paris apartment. After expelling the foetus in a dormitory bathroom, Emaux suffered a haemorrhage and nearly died. Forty years later, she gathers the details of this experience from memories and journal entries, transforming the suffering, guilt, shame, and self-hate into universal happenings.
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