It's no surprise that Tanya Leslie was the first person to translate Ernaux's work into English - first for Seven Stories Press in the US - and that she went on to translate six of her books, starting with A Girl's Story (whose title probably influenced the English version of A Man's Place ). Imajući sve ovo u vidu, stiče se utisak da se neozbiljno pristupilo kako prevođenju ovog dela, tako i lekturi i mislim da je potrebno ili ispraviti sve što je nezgrapno, propušteno ili netačno, ili uraditi jedan sasvim nov prevod na srpski.

Với "Một chỗ trong đời", Annie Ernaux thể hiện tài năng hiếm có của một nhà văn khi viết về chủ đề gia đình, mà có lẽ cũng nhận ra điều này mà khi sau tiểu thuyết này, bà đã chuyển hẳn sang viết những cuốn sách bán tự truyện tương tự, và đều gây được sự xúc động sâu xa trong lòng người đọc. Annie Ernaux, daughter, student, aspiring author and mother, dissects the personality of her father, that loving and scary figure many of us had and someday might even become. Em O lugar, encontramos o mesmo estilo da autora, que a deixou conhecida no mundo literário: a capacidade de escrever histórias envolventes a partir de suas memórias, mas com uma visão menos pessoal.I think there is also tremendous humility, in an almost religious sense, in seeing a life reduced to 99 pages. C’è molto dolore in queste pagine: scavato, analizzato, scandagliato, sezionato con semplicità e nitidezza.

Ernaux's father had to leave school at the age of twelve to work on a farm due to his family's financial situation. Mas não é possível voltar muito atrás, corrigir ou acrescentar coisas, e nem mesmo me perguntar onde estava a felicidade. Neraspričano, otmeno i tako da ispovest prevazilazi samu sebe, postajući promišljanje o pronalaženju svog mesta na ovom svetu.

But still she does it – and it is thrilling to read Ernaux working out, word by word, what she deems appropriate to include in each text. Desde luego no siento ningún placer al escribir, en este empeño por mantenerme lo más cerca posible de las palabras y las frases oídas…Nada de poesía del recuerdo, nada de alegre regocijo. I think because I wrote poetry and acted in plays that he feared I was gay, if true a possible source of isolation and abuse especially in the fifties. A forma como Annie relata a sua relação com o pai é muito objetiva e distante, o que, nessa caso, não me cativou tanto.

proprio nel modo in cui viene vestito il corpo del padre appena morto, dopo avergli chiuso gli occhi, pur facendo presto per anticipare l’irrigidimento. His greatest satisfaction, possibly even the raison d’être of his existence, was the fact that I belonged to the world which had scorned him. I think he was proud of Annie as she went through college, but apparently he was sort of jealous of her at times and she was ashamed of him at times.Parece sencillo escribir algo como esto, pero creo que el ser sencillo y claro en la escritura no es nada fácil. Un relato bastante corto el cual está destinado básicamente a recordar al padre de la autora, Annie Ernaux (1940), mediante un texto autobiográfico.

Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires. Un confrontarsi che sta al di qua del pudore e che modera l'introspezione che indaga nel tessuto universale.I waited there until they came to fetch me for my practical, which involved giving a lesson in front of an inspector and two assessors, both distinguished lecturers in French. I also read it now because I saw Ilse had been reading Ernaux’s work and as so often happens with Ilse, she nudged me (gently, urgently) through her lovely review to read her work. Jer smrti dragih osoba su uvek i naše smrti – pozornica života je osuđena da bude ispražnjena, a svako nestajanje je nenadoknadivo. Ani Erno je jedan od onih pisaca za koje se, na prvi pogled, čini da pišu sasvim drugačiju vrstu literature od onoga što zaista čine.