France, Alternative Libertaire AL #240 - Read: Annie Ernaux Viewing lights my love (fr, pt)

Bottom races ---- The collection "Telling Life" Threshold tries to explain the literature 
everyday life today, in all its most banal. In the form of diary which is customary, Annie 
Ernaux tells us the wonderful world of hypermarkets. More specifically, the hypermarket 
Auchan in the mall of Trois-Fontaines in Cergy. ---- Without going into a sociological or 
anthropological analysis, Annie tells Ernaux practice hypermarket and shares his thoughts 
and his observations on the world of retail, artifice for us to consume, its widespread 
surveillance, its sexism, its advertising manipulations, ambient racism ... But far from 
being limited to a critique of capitalist modernity, Annie Ernaux shows us how people 
attempt to reclaim this mall. How it tends to play the social role of the old village 
square ... but a village square which would be privatized and hypersurveill?e. This 
booklet provides a reflection on these important malls in our cities ... and on our way to 
(re) invest.

Leo P. (AL Alsace)

Annie Ernaux Viewing lights my love Threshold "Telling life," March 2014, 72 p., 5.90 euros