La mujer helada

She is thirty years old, she is a teacher, married to an executive, mother of two children. She lives in a comfortable house. However, she is a cold woman. Like thousands of women, she has felt how her curiosity, her vital impulse, were stagnating by dint of a job to combine with shopping to do, dinners to cook, children's baths to prepare... All that is understood by the normal condition of woman. Annie Ernaux brilliantly recounts this alteration of everyday life, this impoverishment of sensations, this dilution of identity; slavery to which women are pushed as a challenge.