Waterstones Getting Lost
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Price: £12.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2022. Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attache to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate and unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living in the suburbs of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters. She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives merely to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the moment of desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death. Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer, Getting Lost is a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair.
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781913097004
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ISBN: 9781913097004
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Author: nick fraser
Rating: 5
Review: This is one of best books... it is not erotic and from her diaries. The vocabulary is a bit ripe (in French) but she is one of the best French writer. Much better than De Beauvoir, occasionally funny but also deeply pessimistic as French do. I came near to Yvetot where she came from like Flaubert like Normandy. Very few writers poorish where her parents had a cafe She also come from 1960s modern Cergy and a boring academic career. She is eightish. She wrote this book 2000. I imagined her other books including her excellent novel about her abortion in 1960s when it was illegal. The film Happening is excellent. I loved all her books including The Years which is more sociological and it shows that she became that she more bourgeois. Like most French she is leftish. Who cares? I wish I could meet her and talk with her. There are so many books about people their lives. Hers are the best.
Author: Jonathan D. Mueller
Rating: 1
Review: I bought this after Ernsux won the Nobel to see what the fuss was about. Nothing. Nothing, empty, a writer writing about herself and her own emptiness. Nothing to say about life, or love, or anything.
