SK Gaski quoted Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human …
It occured to me that writing should aim to do the same, to replicate the feeling of witnessing sexual intercourse, that feeling of anxiety and stupefaction, a suspension of moral judgment.
— Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie, Annie Ernaux (Page 11)