In her conception of literature as “updating the real”, Annie Ernaux analyses the aspects of the disenchantment of modern women, caught in a modernity that they see as alienating /irreversible. Uprooting, illegal abortion, a failed bourgeois marriage are all the moments of rupture that will lead A. Ernaux to write in The Years ( 2008) that “all the images will disappear” and lead to the expression of “the anonymous being increasingly faceless”. The demystification concerns late twentieth and early twenty-first century women , recognizing, in spite of their awareness and their critical spirit, the weight of socio-cultural determinism, the depersonalising effect of culture, the end of family solidarity in the current “ disintegration of the couple” and the uncertainly on the link age. In this context, the left-wing student for who “1968 is the date when the world started” quickly loses her enthusiasm. Now a teacher, she will feel her job like an “imposture”. In this impasse, A. Ernaux will make writing a way of “fight against being sucked into the feminine”, deconstructing every model (maternity, the eternal feminine, the social being…) “There are no models”, she writes and claims another existence where women can be “as free as men”. The creation focused on the female in its complex representation, will be neither confession nor catharsis, but a reinvention of self, in a “sliding, absolutely story” where woman “brings together the multiple images of herself”. In the detailed summary, we return with more precision on this representation of women in A. Ernaux’s work.