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Getting lost

Ernaux, Annie 1940- (author.). Strayer, Alison L., (translator.).

Summary: "Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside 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, saying "his desire for me is the only thing I can be sure of." She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives only to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the 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. Getting Lost is as strong a book as any that she has written, a haunting, desperate view of strong and successful woman who seduces a man only to lose herself in love and desire"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 1644212196
  • ISBN: 9781644212196
  • Physical Description: 239 pages ; 21 cm
    print
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Translated from the French.
"Originally published in French as Se Perdre (Paris: Gallimard, 2001)."
Subject: Ernaux, Annie 1940- Diaries
Ernaux, Annie 1940- Relations with men
Middle-aged women France Diaries
Man-woman relationships France
Genre: Diaries.
Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 6 of 6 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library 92 ERNAUX (Text) 50686016251311 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library B Ernaux (Text) 39427103708426 Nonfiction Room: Adult Biography Available -
Martin Library Adults Ernaux Biography (Text) 33454005916135 2nd Floor Available -
Southern Lehigh Public Library 843 ERN (Text) 30044100885864 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Bethlehem Main Library 843.914 (Text) 33062009671042 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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