The art of spatial narrative in Annie Ernaux's autobiographical fiction——An examination centered on A Woman
A Woman is Annie Ernaux's masterpiece of autobiographical fiction that fully demonstrates the art of spatial narrative in her autobiographical novels.Through analyzing the contradictions and conflicts between"I"and mother,the author reveals the divide and confrontation between different social classes.Ernaux's poetics of space endows her work with a distinctive quality.Through the multi-dimensional construction of geographic,social and psychological spaces,the novel decodes the marginal situation and identity crisis of the protagonist"I"and explores the identity dilemma she encounters as a class"betrayer"after her rise in status,thus revealing the severe social reality and class contradictions at that time,and reflecting on the reconstruction of identity from the literary level.