Mit Annie Ernaux im Supermarkt

Flanerie, Konsum, Ethnografie in 'Regarde les lumières mon amour' (2014)

Abstract

To this day, the supermarket or shopping centre is a space that has received little literary attention. In Regarde les lumières mon amour (2014), French author and Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux offers the diary of a shopping mall visitor. In the tradition of modern flâneur literature, she takes a critical look at the everyday and the otherwise invisible parts of society in order to draw conclusions about French society and postmodernity. The hypermarché she investigates in a Parisian suburb is revealed as a gendered space that symbolises a gender and power structure that displaces the domestic not only from public space, but also from literature.