emotional asymmetry

French writer Annie Arnoux has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, for “the courage and clinical acumen with which she uncovers the roots, mechanisms and collective restrictions of individual memory,” says the Swedish Academy. . Ernox’s popularity grew after his 2008 Work the Years was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker Prize. Hopping, a book about her illegal abortion in the 1960s, also found new readers after abortion rights were curtailed in America. What her works have in common is one that dives deep into the kind of shame women are often conditioned by the patriarchal social set-up to experience. As readers have noted, she uses personal anecdotes as if her first sexual experience is clearly enough to shed light on how women are judged for their actions. It is thanks to books like Arnox that men who sometimes fail to recognize their accidental complexity in gender inequality began to understand what privilege, on the other hand, can be like. The main purpose of literature is to stimulate ideas, promote empathy and open dialogue which can give us a better world. This is what Arnoux’s writings are known for.