The novel “A Place of One’s Own,” for which Annie Ernault received the Renaudo Prize in 1984, marked the beginning of the writer’s autosociobiographical method: it was this concise, economical writing, revealing the interpenetration of the personal and the public, that would bring Ernault world fame. At the center of the novel is the figure of a father, a contemporary of the twentieth century, who, at the cost of enormous efforts, paved his way from a factory worker to a small shopkeeper, and his relationship with his adult daughter, who found herself in a different social class with different values, language, tastes and behavior. Together with the book " Woman”, dedicated to the mother, this book forms a kind of “parental diptych”.