Je hasarde une explication: écrire, c’est le dernier recours quand on a trahi.’ (Jean Genet – epigraph to La Place) Is this the case for Annie Ernaux’s narrator?

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[...] hasarde une explication: écrire, c'est le dernier recours quand on a trahi.' (Jean Genet epigraph to La Place) Is this the case for Annie Ernaux's narrator? In Annie Ernaux's La Place, the theme of betrayal is so prevalent that one could say it is the basis of the book. I think it would be fair to say that “écrire, c'est le dernier recours quand on a trahi” when looking at Annie Ernaux's narrator. The narrator feels that she has betrayed her family and this theme is conveyed through a sense of estrangement from her family and past, as well as a sense of guilt and failure. [...]

[...] Due to this her relationship with her father deteriorates irreparably as they are “poles apart” and the socio-economic difference between them is so great that they can no longer interact. These are clear examples in which Ernaux uses characterization to bring out the failed relationship between the narrator and her father, hence the narrator's sense of betrayal which is derived from the distance between her family brought about by education. The style in which La Place is written illustrates the narrator's sense of betrayal and guilt. [...]

[...] In conclusion, I feel that it is fair to say that the narrator feels “écrire ,c'est le dernier recours quand on a trahi.”. Also, because this is an auto-fiction genre, the author also feels this, which is why I have, in places referred to the narrator and the author as being one or sharing ideas and feelings. The narrator/author feels that she has become so different from where she came from that she has essentially lost her heritage. In an endeavor to recapture it and to relieve her of the guilt and betrayal, [...]