Ernaux’s Critical Account of Women in a Woman’s Story “A Propulsive World’’

Abstract

The present paper discusses the traumatic situations experienced by Ernaux’s mother during the different phases of her life to depict a vivid picture of the life of mothers and women in general in the 21^st century in Europe. She was overburdened under the shadow of extreme poverty, sans aucun support in life and worked as a factory worker for the survival of her family. The paper will make an attempt to examine her biographical work A Woman’s Story to present the details on the concerned themes in a condensed manner. Theorists like Albert Camus, Spinoza have manifested in their ideas the pain arising out of such aspects and how it can be dealt with which will be taken as a theoretical background to present the issues.  As we know, the presence of poverty puts one’s life in coma and the same has been felt in the life of Ernaux’s mother who sacrificed everything throughout her life to provide her family a ray of life. The aspects of ambition, interest, and family in their account will be deliberated upon in brief in the communication.