Anne Elnor's "Private Writing" works reflect women's living conditions through personal experiences, and her non autobiographical approach connects personal fate with collective memory, showcasing the hardships women face in specific social and historical contexts. Select three works, "Simple Passion," "Events," and "Occupy," to analyze their female discourse characteristics and explore Erno's writing practice and language features. Using linguistic methods, this study aims to reveal how Erno endows women with universal value through words in terms of vocabulary, syntax, semantics, rhetoric, and narrative, allowing readers to feel the sensation of women's bodies and achieve resonance from individuals to the general public.

From 'perceptible' to 'knowable'

Erno's "private writing" style is known for its simplicity and purity. She searches for words through her senses and transforms objective things and subjective emotions into writing objects in the real world. She regards literary practice as a 'workshop', documenting the inspirations and plans in the creative process. In 'Occupy', she transforms her personal experience into something tangible and understandable by depicting jealousy, allowing readers to empathize. Erno's writing characteristics include a reliance on visual impressions, creating a sense of life through details, and concretizing abstract emotions. She also pays attention to the use of French tenses, emphasizing the continuous impact of events on reality and conveying the subjective emotions of characters by combining the past tense and the incomplete past tense. Erno's creative philosophy is to turn private personal experiences into collective experiences that can be spoken of and shared, bringing them into the public eye.

From private to public discourse

In depth exploration of how Erno transformed his personal life experiences into literary works with universal significance, showcasing the voices of different social classes and genders through the blending of personal and other consciousness. Erno uses "enemy language" and "stolen writing techniques" to tell stories of marginalized groups as a non mainstream identity. At the textual level, she employs two narrative techniques: "enclaves of foreign languages" and "free indirect speech", breaking down linguistic boundaries, connecting sensibility and intellect, and imbuing personal discourse with social and collective value.

Words of inversion and confrontation

Since the publication of "The Empty Closet" in 1974, Erno has been writing in a "wrong, difficult, and muddy way", with works full of satire, violence, and illegality, denying literary value and despising everything. After completing three novels, she gave up the form of fiction and believed that what was important was to write works that could shock people and inspire ideas. In 'Location', she breaks the traditional literary form and authentically restores the world of her father and 'me', expressing the pain and guilt that transcends social classes. In female themed works such as "Occupy," "Simple Passion," and "Events," she aims to make men recognize the universality of literary expressions created by women.